Abstract : Where does human language come from? The ‘greatest problem in science’, according to Bickerton (2009), remains a mystery. This new volume offers a partial but important map of current ideas on the problem. The book is stimulating because of the issues it raises and surprising in the issues it ignores.
Jean-Louis Dessalles. Review of: The evolution of human language: Biolinguistic perspectives (R. Larson et al., CUP, 2010). Language, Linguistic Society of America, 2011, 87 (2), pp.411-414. ⟨10.1353/lan.2011.0042⟩. ⟨hal-02286881⟩