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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

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Author(s): Derek Bickerton
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 286
City: New York

Contents (v)......Page 5
Introduction (3)......Page 7
1. The Size of the Problem (16)......Page 20
2. Thinking Like Engineers (37)......Page 41
3. Singing Apes? (55)......Page 59
4. Chatting Apes? (73)......Page 77
5. Niches Aren't Everything (They're the Only Thing) (92)......Page 96
6. Our Ancestors in Their Niches (109)......Page 113
7. Go to the Ant, Thou Sluggard (128)......Page 132
8. The Big Bang (146)......Page 150
9. The Challenge from Chomsky (169)......Page 173
10. Making Up Our Minds (192)......Page 196
11. An Acorn Grows to a Sapling (211)......Page 215
12. The Sapling Becomes an Oak (232)......Page 236
Notes (251)......Page 254
Bibliography (259)......Page 261
Acknowledgments (273)......Page 274
Index (275)......Page 275