The origin of language
The "Key Issues" series makes available the contemporary responses that met important books on their first appearance. The notion that language was a divine gift to humanity was seriously questioned by Darwin's theory of evolution. This text contains various contributions to the controversy.
Key issues, no.7
xii,332p ; 23cm.
9781855064386, 9781855064379, 1855064383, 1855064375
1154977460
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