Fitch, W. Tecumseh. <br/><br/>
The evolution of language / 
W. Tecumseh Fitch. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  c2010. 
 - xii, 610 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-604) and index. 
<br/><br/>The lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective ; Evolution : consensus and controversy ; Language ; Animal cognition and communication -- Meet the ancestors. Meet the ancestors ; The LCA : our last common ancestor with chimpanzees ; Hominid paleontology and archaeology -- The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human vocal tract ; The evolution of vocal control : the neural basis for spoken language ; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology -- Evaluating phylogenetic models of language evolution. Historical overview : Western theories of language origin before Darwin ; Lexical protolanguage ; Signs before speech : gestural protolanguage theories ; Musical protolanguage. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>052167736X (pbk.) 052185993X 9780521677363 (pbk.) 9780521859936 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010502306 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA999486  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015391261  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historical linguistics.<br/>Language and languages--Origin.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P116  / .F58 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>417.7