@book {4738,
	title = {The Evolution of Language},
	year = {2010},
	note = {<p>The lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective; Evolution: consensus and controversy; Language; Animal cognition and communication -- Meet the ancestors. Meet the ancestors; The LCA: our last common ancestor with chimpanzee; Hominid paleontology and archaeology -- The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human vocal tract; The evolution of vocal control: the neural basis for spoken language; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology -- Evaluating phylogenetic models of language evolution. Historical overview: Western theories of language origin before Darwin; Lexical protolanguage; Signs before speech: gestural protolanguage theories; Musical protolanguage.</p>
},
	pages = {610},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge },
	abstract = {<p>Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin{\textquoteright}s theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.</p>
},
	keywords = {Historical linguistics., Language and language origin},
	isbn = {9780521859936 },
	url = {http://lccn.loc.gov/2010502306},
	author = {Fitch, W. Tecumseh.}
}
