The Ape That Spoke: Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind

Bibliographic Collection: 
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: McCrone, John
Year of Publication: 1991
Edition: 1st Ed.
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: William Morrow and Co.
City: New York
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 068810326X
Keywords: Brain, Human evolution, Language and languages, Language Development, Self Concept., Self-perception, Thought and thinking
Abstract:

This exciting evolutionary odyssey, which was a BOMC and History Book Club selection in cloth, interweaves recent advances in linguistics and anthropology and controversially concludes that imagination and higher emotions are language-driven extensions of the animal mind.

Label: 1991