Language & Species

The classic work on the origins and evolution of language from the pioneering linguist and author of  Adam’s Tongue. Language and Species  presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages—as well as important discoveries in paleoanthropology—Bickerton shows how a primitive "protolanguage" could have offered  Homo erectus