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Description of  The Language Puzzle Piecing Together the SixMillionYear Story of How Words Evolved [Audiobook]

B0CV2RN36W M4B@128 kbps Author: Steven Mithen Narrator: Kerry Hutchinson A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today. The invention of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this evolution occurred has been one of the most enduring-and contentiously debated-questions in science. In The Language Puzzle, renowned archaeologist Steven Mithen puts forward a groundbreaking new account of the origins of language. Scientists have gained new insights into the first humans of 2.8 million years ago, and how numerous species flourished but only one, Homo sapiens, survives today.