The Evolution of Language by W. Tecumseh Fitch
English | 2010 | ISBN: 052167736X, 052185993X | 622 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not?