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Speech! How Language Made Us Human
Science
An exploration of how the human capacity for language evolved and how it set our species apart from all others. Prentis weaves together linguistics, evolution, and cognitive science to argue that speech is the defining feature that made us human.
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Matt Ridley
“a genuine intellectual feast of ideas...written with great eloquence”
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Richard Dawkins
“Enigmatic book. Glad to have read it...a literate, stylish writer.”