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The Origin of Language: How we learned to speak and why

Madeleine Beekman

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Description:The Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney makes a radical, compelling new account of the origin of human language. It wasn't hunting or fighting or simply being smart that gave us 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 forebears trod toward creating human language, populating the planet, and understanding the universe. Human accomplishments, all rooted in language, didn't come from supposedly male dominated activities like hunting or making war, their origin lies in a culture of caring, of looking after the weakest among us, our relatively helpless children. Random ‘mistakes’ made in the evolution of our DNA and chromosomes over the last hundreds of thousands of years made us have babies more prematurely than other hominids like Neanderthals and Denisovans (thanks narrow hips!). Caring for uniquely vulnerable babies required an entirely new, higher level of cooperation between adults or our species would perish. Darwin and other players in the history of science are on stage alongside the author as she builds her case. This childcare problem led to the development of human language and in turn all our accomplishments. Even the large language model of intelligence ChatGPT makes an appearance. The argument overturns other explanations of the origin of language, civilisation and our species’ planetary dominance by greats such as Chomsky, Pinker, and Harari among many others. The verdict in this investigation is that culture of caring, not violence, has always been the secret of our success. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Origin of Language: How we learned to speak and why. To get started finding The Origin of Language: How we learned to speak and why, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney makes a radical, compelling new account of the origin of human language. It wasn't hunting or fighting or simply being smart that gave us 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 forebears trod toward creating human language, populating the planet, and understanding the universe. Human accomplishments, all rooted in language, didn't come from supposedly male dominated activities like hunting or making war, their origin lies in a culture of caring, of looking after the weakest among us, our relatively helpless children. Random ‘mistakes’ made in the evolution of our DNA and chromosomes over the last hundreds of thousands of years made us have babies more prematurely than other hominids like Neanderthals and Denisovans (thanks narrow hips!). Caring for uniquely vulnerable babies required an entirely new, higher level of cooperation between adults or our species would perish. Darwin and other players in the history of science are on stage alongside the author as she builds her case. This childcare problem led to the development of human language and in turn all our accomplishments. Even the large language model of intelligence ChatGPT makes an appearance. The argument overturns other explanations of the origin of language, civilisation and our species’ planetary dominance by greats such as Chomsky, Pinker, and Harari among many others. The verdict in this investigation is that culture of caring, not violence, has always been the secret of our success. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Origin of Language: How we learned to speak and why. To get started finding The Origin of Language: How we learned to speak and why, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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