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ShareA compelling look at the quest for the origins of human language from an accomplished linguist Language is a distinctly human gift.
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However, because it leaves no permanent trace, its evolution has long been a mystery, and it is only in the last fifteen years that we have begun to understand how language came into being.
The First Word is the compelling story of the quest for the origins of human language.
The book follows two intertwined narratives.
The first is an account of how language developed—how the random and layered processes of evolution wound together to produce a talking animal: us.
The second addresses why scientists are at last able to explore the subject.
For more than a hundred years, language evolution was considered a scientific taboo.
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