The Language Puzzle

by Steven Mithen

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The Language Puzzle
Book Details
Narrator: Kerry Hutchinson
Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
Release Date: 03-07-24
File Size: 773.39 MB
File Type: .m4b
Description

The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.

The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words.

Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today’s Digital Age.

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