Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press) 9780262034241, 0262034247

POR QU SOLO NOSOTROS?/ WHY ONLY US? : evolucin y lenguaje/ evolution and language. 9788499885261, 8499885268

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Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can 9780231550017

Herbert S. Terrace revisits his 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee language, Project Nim, to offer a novel view of t

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Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency 9780231544962

In this provocative book, Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergen

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August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution [Pilot project, eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9780674286832

August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism f

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Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts (The MIT Press) 0262037556, 9780262037556

How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philoso

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Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9780231537179

Revisiting the schism that rendered twentieth-century philosophy into irreconcilable continental and analytic camps.

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The Comedy of Error: why evolution made us laugh 9781913348182, 9781922310095, 9781925938456, 1913348180

What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever

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Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9781400866335

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the l

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