The Origin of Language
how we learned to speak and why
$71.27
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2025
Summary
The Cradle of Tongues: How Childcare Gave Birth to Language
In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care for our children.
Journeying to the dawn of Homo sapiens, evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman reveals the “happy accidents” hidden in our molecular biology—DNA, chromosomes, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398548428 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398548421 |
| Author: | Madeleine Beekman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Madeleine Beekman
Madeleine Beekman is professor of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology emerita at the University of Sydney, Australia, Editor-in-Chief of Insectes Sociaux, and board member of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences. Madeleine Beekman lives in Australia’s northern tropical rainforest with her husband where she can observe cassowaries from her office. She has two adult daughters.
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