Book review: The Evolution of Language, by W.Tecumseh Fitch

Posted by Anthony Campbell on Monday, May 24. 2010

Just posted my review of The Evolution of Language, by W. Tecumseh Fitch. This is a wide-ranging book, aimed mainly, I think, at an academic audience but still with plenty to interest the non-specialist. For more on the same subject, see The Symbolic Species, by Terrence Deacon.

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