Human Language Evolution

Come face to face with our ancestors Travel back 8 million years with Evolution The Human Story and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to

How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolu

“If you care about art writ large as a miraculous bounty for the world, or only for your own selfish sake, The Art Instinct should impress you as the most shrewd, precisely written and provocative stu

A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age

An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestorsOver the last century, the search for human ancestors has

The present volume is based on research articles submitted as part of an international conference Exploring Human Origins: Exciting discoveries at the start of the 21st Century', 5-10 August 2013 in M

Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language. The evolutionary root

With a well-balanced mix of international and Canadian examples, the ninth edition of this bestselling text traces the evolution of the discipline across the globe, examining the ways in which human b

Natural language (NL) refers to human language--complex, irregular, diverse, with allits philosophical problems of meaning and context. Setting a new direction in AI research, this bookexplores the de

We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many

Understanding Behaviorism explains the basis of behavior analysis and its application to human problems in a scholarly but accessible manner.Only book available that both explains behavior analysis an

This book brings together prominent scholars and political activists to assess the evolution of the international human rights agenda since the end of the Cold War. It ar

What is that “hard, knobby bit” you feel when you squeeze your finger? What do you sense when you put your hand on your chest? Using concrete, vivid language, this book takes readers on a tour through

Written in language intended to demystify the field, this textbook on feminist psychology is accessible to undergraduates with little background but also contains enough thought-provoking material for

In this work of popular history, Ewen & Ewen expose the pivotal developments that have made stereotypes a persistent, common language. Moving across centuries and continents in thirty eloquent vig

Anyone who has ever looked at a dog waiting to go for a walk and thought there was something age-old and almost human in its sad expression can take comfort in knowing that Charles Darwin did exactly

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit, an investigation of what makes conversations work, and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in our livesThe right conversation, at the right moment, can change everything.We all know people who seem capable of connecting with anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, who ask the best questions—but who are also able to hear what goes unsaid, what we are really trying to say.Why are these people so good at connecting? And what can they tell us about how communication works?Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand—some by intuition, some by hard-won experience—that there is a science to how human beings connect. They understand that every time we speak to someone, we’re actually engaging in one of three conversations: What is this really about? How do we feel? And, Who are we? They know the importance of identifying what kind of conversation we’re having, and then matching it, so tha

This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. A key to understanding how any human language work

One of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man's cultural achievements. An Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a brilliant vindication of man's ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind.What the thinkers of the past have thought of the human race, what can be said of its art, language, and capacities for good and evil in the light of modern knowledge are discussed by a great philosopher who had a profound experience of the past and of his own time.“Ernst Cassirer…had a long standing international reputation in philosophy…. This suggestive volume now makes available the substance of his point of view.” --Irwin Edman, New York Herald Tribune“The best and most mature expression of his thought.”—Journal of Philosophy

Hip, Hip Hooray! Street and Brace have put their heads together and come up with a book about idioms that hits the topic right on the nose for elementary school students and English language learners.

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我們的祖先是如何從一個腦容量很小的生物，進化為擁有大局觀思維的全球物種的？我們為何能在超大規模的社群中，憑藉每日吸納的巨量信息管理自己的生活呢？我們的腦容量是如何影響所能組建的社群規模和社交關係的？我們如何利用小社群的經驗處理大社會的問題？社交是如何改造我們的生活和大腦的？……這些問題的答案將顛覆你對人類大腦和社群的認知。《大局觀從何而來》是“鄧巴數”提出者、著名進化人類學家羅賓·鄧巴的經典著作，

為什麼與陌生人搭電梯會不安與焦慮？為什麼人際鬥爭就是不可能就事論事？為什麼狒狒問候時會握住彼此睪丸？ ■來自猩猩的你，老偏方一直挺到現在？在探究你我關係、彼此差異，在強調大腦心智、心理機制之前，請先問問生物本能與遺傳抉擇，人類的生存習性和行為模式，是否物種內建基因作祟？老偏方還在，一直挺到現在？ ■牠們像我們，還是我們像牠們？人類中心主義和個人自由意志，太自我感覺良好了，卻妨礙我們承認自身行為的生

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not be accounted for without understanding the evolution of the human body and mind. Thus Mithen arrived at the wildly ambitious project that unfolds in this book: an exploration of music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species.Music is the language of emotion, common wisdom tells us. In The Singing Neanderthals, Mithen introduces us to the science that might support such popular notions. With equal parts scientific rigor and charm, he marshals current evidence about social organization, tool and weapon technologies, hunting and sca

Now in full color, Diane France's lab manual balances the study of human osteology, forensic anthropology, anthropometry, primates, human evolution, and genetics with a new chapter on growth & dev

In this overview of the evolution of human society, Carl Coon argues that the twenty-first century will witness a crucially important and difficult transition for the human race. Blending the discipli

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human hea

Powerful and visually spectacular, Moth is the remarkable evolution story that captures the struggle of animal survival against the background of an evolving human world in a unique and atmospheric in

A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Ch

An illuminating work of religious and cultural anthropology, Talking to the Enemy traces terrorism?s root causes in human evolution and history, touching on the nature of faith, the origins of society

Travel back in time with this visual guide to the history of human conflict, tracing the evolution of technology and tactics from the ancient world to the American Civil War!Combining beautiful ninete

A fascinating tour through the evolution of the human diet, and how we can improve our health by understanding our complicated history with food.There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by

Evolution according to Darren Shan: human to half-vampire to Vampire Prince. The Saga of Darren Shan book 9: Killers of the Dawn. Outnumbered, outsmarted and desperate, the hunters are on the run. Pur

The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal li

Describes the sounds and sensations of the life of the unborn in a language that emphasizes the joy and importance of human life

"Explores listening as a fundamental human endowment connected with language and thought, and its potential for social, personal, and political action. Incorporates historical, literary, intercultural

"Slobodchikoff's ground-breaking research" (Jonathan Balcombe) shows us that animals have much to teach us about languageGroundbreaking research has been done teaching animals human language, but what

An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyss

In exploring the nature of psychological explanation, this book looks at how psychologists theorize about the human ability to calculate, to speak a language and the like. It shows how good theorizing