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Language Evolution
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The Evolution of Language (Approaches to the Evolution of Language)
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W. Tecumseh Fitch
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Language Evolution (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language Book 3)
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Steven Pinker
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The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk
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Sverker Johansson
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
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Christine Kenneally
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
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Morten H. Christiansen
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Origins of Human Communication
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Michael Tomasello
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The Domestication of Language: Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal
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From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language
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Ronald Planer
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Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special
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Thom Scott-Phillips
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The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution
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Maggie Tallerman
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Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language
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Philip Lieberman
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Language & Species
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More than Nature Needs: Language, Mind, and Evolution
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
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Language: The Cultural Tool
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher, Holt Paperbacks
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Guy Deutscher
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Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
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Robert C. Berwick
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The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language)
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Robbins Burling
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
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How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution
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The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language
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Gregory Radick
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The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
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Madeleine Beekman
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The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution
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