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The Evolution of Language
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Book chapters
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 13
Language from a biological perspective
pp. 35
Evolution: consensus and controversy
pp. 73
Language
pp. 143
Animal cognition and communication
pp. 205
Meet the ancestors
pp. 234
The LCA: our last common ancestor with chimpanzees
pp. 250
Hominid paleontology and archaeology
pp. 297
The evolution of the human vocal tract
pp. 338
The evolution of vocal control: the neural basis for spoken language
pp. 364
Models of the evolution of speech and phonology
pp. 389
Historical overview: Western theories of language origin before Darwin
pp. 401
Lexical protolanguage
pp. 433
Signs before speech: gestural protolanguage theories
pp. 466
Musical protolanguage
pp. 508
Conclusions and prospects
pp. 513
Glossary
pp. 519
Appendix: species names
pp. 521
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