The evolution and the rise of human language: Carry the baby

Homo Symbolicus: The Dawn of Language, Imagination and Spirituality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 13-47

  Savage Rumbaugh, E Sue ^a   Fields, William M ^b  

^a Great Ape Trust   (United States)

^b SIMPSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1075/z.168.02sav     Document Type: Chapter

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