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Archeology and the language-ready brain
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September 12, 2013
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In this book, Michael Arbib presents a most interesting and comprehensive account of the evolution of language. The work is both impressive and convincing in its description of how the language-ready brain evolved and how languages emerged through cultural evolution. As we are in broad agreement with Arbib's evolutionary story at the neurocognitive level, we focus on an underdeveloped part of his argument: when did language evolve in the human lineage? How does Arbib's neurocognitive argument connect with what archeology teaches us about human evolution?
Published Online: 2013-09-12
Published in Print: 2013-09-06
©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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