The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.
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About Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language.
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation