The Origin of Language
how we learned to speak and why
$32.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2025
Summary
Cradle of Tongues: How Childcare Gave Birth to Language
A radical, compelling new account of the origin of human language by Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. It wasn’t hunting or fighting or simply being smart that gave us language: it was caring for our kids.
Could the first words spoken by Homo sapiens have been ‘hey, hold the baby!’? Madeleine Beekman, a visionary evolutionary biologist, walks readers along a path through deep time that our …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761634369 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761634364 |
| Author: | Madeleine Beekman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Scribner Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Madeleine Beekman
Madeleine Beekman is professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia. In the academic year of 2020–21, Beekman was a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), which is where the idea for The Origin of Language was born. She currently lives with her husband in Australia’s northern tropical rainforest, where she can observe the endangered cassowary from her office. She has two adult daughters and a tiny granddaughter.
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