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The Origin of Language

The Origin of Language

How We Learned to Speak and Why

by Madeleine Beekman
Hardback
Publication Date: 14/08/2025
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ISBN:
9781398548428
9781398548428
Category:
Philosophy of language
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
14-08-2025
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x23mm
Madeleine Beekman

Madeleine Beekman is professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia. In the academic year of 2020–21, Beekman was a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), which is where the idea for The Origin of Language was born.

She currently lives with her husband in Australia’s northern tropical rainforest, where she can observe the endangered cassowary from her office. She has two adult daughters and a tiny granddaughter.

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