The Language Puzzle: How we talked our way out of the Stone Age - Steven Mithen

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 by Steven Mithen 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…