Discussions of language tend to start from the assumption that it is a uniquely human trait without antecedent in the animal kingdom. Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language forcefully challenges this assumption. Lieberman brings together a wide range of evidence from comparative anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, genetics, neuropsychology, and linguistics to illuminate the protolinguistic abilities in other species.
   --Joseph T. Devlin, Science

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Philip Lieberman is Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

Read More by Philip Lieberman:

• The Biology and Evolution of Language
• Uniquely Human: The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior
• Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought