[PDF] Language In Deep Human History eBook

Author : Richard J. Watts
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111238272

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Understanding the evolution of language within the context of deep human history requires interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from a wide range of academic disciplines (e. g. archaeology, molecular biology, anthropology, genetics, biochemistry, etc.). The book aims to calibrate work on human evolution with current linguistic theory in an attempt to trace out a scientific story of how human language emerged and developed that has plausibility while remaining open to change through new linguistic and non-linguistic research.

Author : Richard J. Watts
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2024-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111238660

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Understanding the evolution of language within the context of deep human history requires interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from a wide range of academic disciplines (e. g. archaeology, molecular biology, anthropology, genetics, biochemistry, etc.). The book aims to calibrate work on human evolution with current linguistic theory in an attempt to trace out a scientific story of how human language emerged and developed that has plausibility while remaining open to change through new linguistic and non-linguistic research.

Author : Andrew Shryock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520270282

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This breakthrough book brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more.

Author : Clive Gamble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107013267

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How and when did we become the only human species to settle the whole earth? How did our brains become so large? In this book, Clive Gamble sets out to answer these fundamental questions, digging deep into the archives of archaeology, fossil ancestors and human genetics. The wealth of detail in these sources allows him to write a completely new account of our earliest beginnings: a deep history in which we devised solutions not only to the technical challenges of global settlement but also cracked the problem, long before writing and smartphones, of how to live apart yet stay in touch.

Author : Daniel Lord Smail
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0520252896

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When does history begin? What characterizes it? This book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. It lays out a new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.

Author : W. Tecumseh Fitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 113948706X

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Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.

Author : Francis Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 1847396151

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Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?

Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1998-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393343022

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"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.

Author : Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107088550

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This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.

Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780471159636

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"Ruhlen is a leader in the new attempt to unify the theory of language development and diffusion."––Library Journal "A powerful statement...also a wonderfully clear exposition of linguistic thinking about prehistory."––Anthropological Science One of the world's foremost language researchers takes readers step-by-step through the hotly contested evidence that all modern languages derive from one "mother tongue" once spoken by primitive humans in Africa. With The Origin of Language, Merritt Ruhlen makes this fascinating science accessible to readers with no linguistic background. MERRITT RUHLEN, PhD (Palo Alto, California) is the author of A Guide to the World's Languages