{"product_id":"language-and-species-9780226046105","title":"Language and Species","description":"\u003cp\u003eLanguage 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  and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology  Bickerton shows how a primitive \"protolanguage\" could have offered Homo erectus a novel ecological niche. He goes on to demonstrate how this protolanguage could have developed into the languages we speak today.  \"You are drawn into Bickertons appreciation of the dominant role language plays not only in what we say  but in what we think and  therefore  what we are.\"Robert Wright  New York Times Book Review  \"The evolution of language is a fascinating topic  and Bickertons Language and Species is the best introduction we have.\"John C. Marshall  Nature\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45274639138869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226046109","price":67.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226046105.jpg?v=1780497315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/language-and-species-9780226046105","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}