In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why (Madeleine Beekman, Simon & Schuster) argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care for our children. Via a Guardian review
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