“Apes and dogs are not well equipped for producing the sounds of speech because of the shape of their mouths and throats. In addition to lacking the mechanisms necessary to make speech sounds, they also lack the temporal-sequential perceptual capabilities so as to hear the individual units and sounds of speech and are unable to string words together so that they are grammatical and make syntactical sense.”
Joseph takes the reader on an intriguing journey through time as he traces the evolution of communication and language from the most primitive single-celled animals to our earliest ancestors to humans today.
Author: R. Joseph
Title: The Naked Neuron: Evolution and the Languages of the Body and Brain
Edition: No edition remarks
Published: New York and London: Plenum Press, 1993
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 444p
Condition: Near fine dust jacket. Boards and spine clean with mild crushing at spine ends. Binding tight and mildly rolled. Pages clear with foxing on top edge.
Comments: Crisp copy
