Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press) 9780262034241, 0262034247

POR QU SOLO NOSOTROS?/ WHY ONLY US? : evolucin y lenguaje/ evolution and language. 9788499885261, 8499885268

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Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can 9780231550017

Herbert S. Terrace revisits his 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee language, Project Nim, to offer a novel view of t

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More than Nature Needs: Language, Mind, and Evolution [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9780674728523

How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive? Combining state-of-th

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Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency 9780231544962

In this provocative book, Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergen

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Noise Matters: The Evolution of Communication [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9780674287044

We think of noise as background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. But noise is any

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August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution [Pilot project, eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9780674286832

August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism f

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Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9780231537179

Revisiting the schism that rendered twentieth-century philosophy into irreconcilable continental and analytic camps.

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Why Democracy Is Oppositional [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9780674286627

John Medearis argues that democracies face challenges which go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy

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