A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the domi

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the domi

Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association Winner of a PROSE Award, Association of American Publis

This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of pers

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutio