En busca del origen del lenguaje

It takes a whole book to answer this last question, and that book is the one you now have in your hands, a bold and entertaining story about one of humanity's greatest mysteries: the origin of language. Drawing on the most recent research in disciplines as diverse as evolutionary biology, primatology, neuroscience or social anthropology, Sverker Johansson exposes the main theories about how and why humans began to speak. To do this, he explores the historical evolution of languages from a Darwinian perspective, questions the ideas of Chomsky and other renowned linguists, compares the communication skills of people and animals, and addresses the characteristic features of modern languages.