Introduction 1. Brain Structure, Behavior, and Circuitry 2. Human Speech 3. A Thoroughly Modern Human Brain 4. The Brain's Dictionary 5. Learning to Talk and Think 6. Culture and Selfless Behavior Notes References Index
Lieberman has distilled the best of his twenty-five years of accumulated wisdom about man's unique gift of speech and has presented it here in much too readable a form to be limited to experts. I hope it reaches the broad audience it deserves. -- George Miller, Princeton University
Philip Lieberman is Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.
Rewarding and well-written. [In] forcefully reminding those of his
colleagues who may have forgotten that there is a biological basis
for what makes us human Lieberman provides an alternative
perspective which merits serious debate.
*Nature*
Lieberman shows that the apparently daunting task of establishing
how our linguistic abilities evolved can be seriously tackled. By
drawing on his work over a quarter of a century and on a wide range
of other studies—most importantly of chimp behavior—he has given us
an account that is both detailed and fascinating… Thoroughly
recommended.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
Lieberman…has built an international reputation for his theories of
primate, Neanderthal, and modern human vocal capacities. This
concise and well-written book is a highly readable synthesis of his
views… Remarkable.
*American Journal of Human Biology*
Lieberman has distilled the best of his twenty-five years of
accumulated wisdom about the human being’s unique gift of speech
and has presented it here in much too readable a form to be limited
to experts. I hope it reaches the broad audience it deserves.
*George Miller, Princeton University*
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