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By appraising controversial inferences from prehistorians and other scientists, the book addresses the fascinating question of whether Neanderthals had language

An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the commun

An influential geneticist traces his investigation into the genes of humanity's closest evolutionary relatives, explaining what his sequencing of the Neandertha

Did Neanderthals have language, and if so, what was it like? Scientists agree overall that the behaviour and cognition of Neanderthals resemble that of early mo

It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu