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| Title Statement | The origin of language: how we learned to speak and why / Madeleine Beekman. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | How we learned to speak and why |
| Author | Beekman, Madeleine |
| Publication | New York: Simon & Schuster,2025. |
| Edition | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Extent of Item | viii, 308 pages |
| ISBN | 9781668066058 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07918327 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | In a radical new story about the birth of our species, evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman argues that it was not hunting, tool-making, or fighting that led to human speech, but the need to care for our helpless young. This thought-provoking work explores how cooperation and childrearing drove the emergence of language. |
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| By Topic | Communication in anthropology |
| Human evolution | |
| Language and languages--Origin | |
| Mother and child--Social aspects | |
