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Science 10 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5801, pp. 926 - 927
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132135
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LANGUAGE:
Are We Dancing Apes?

Joseph T. Devlin

Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language
by Philip Lieberman
Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2006, 441 pp. $49.95, £32.95, €46.10. ISBN 0-674-02184-3.
Rejecting the influential theories of language development that posit a single dedicated language module, the author argues that language is the product of a succession of evolutionary developments that natural selection has shaped to work together.
The reviewer is at the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. E-mail: devlin{at}fmrib.ox.ac.uk

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