but not the last

A riveting glance at the world of evolutionary linguistics - examining the various extant theories about how human language evolved. Author Christine Kenneally surveys the personalities (like Stephen Gould and Chomsky) and theories of the birth of language in an accessible and constantly interesting manner. The reader, moreover, is introduced not only to the theories of evolutionary linguistics, but the history of the field itself.

I recommended this book to any amateur or professional linguist, philologist or person who has pondered the miracle of human speech and asked herself 'how', 'when' or 'why'.

9/10