How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive...

Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and ...

With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African lan...

The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacitie...

What this book proposes to do, writes Derek Bickerton, is to stand the conventional wisdom of the...

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing cur...

Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origi...

A neuroscientist and a linguist show how evolution could have given rise to structured language.A...

How language evolved has been called 'the hardest problem in science.' In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bi...

Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research cl...

In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creol...

Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor).It was the first...