Steven Mithen - The Language Puzzle

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1976/Title: The Language Puzzle Author: Steven Mithen Narrator: Kerry Hutchinson Format: mp3 Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins Release date: 03-07-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Words, Language & Grammar Publisher's Summary: 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 into today's Digital Age.