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Uniquely Human
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Introduction 1. Brain Structure, Behavior, and Circuitry 2. Human Speech 3. A Thoroughly Modern Human Brain 4. The Brain's Dictionary 5. Learning to Talk and Think 6. Culture and Selfless Behavior Notes References Index

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Lieberman has distilled the best of his twenty-five years of accumulated wisdom about man's unique gift of speech and has presented it here in much too readable a form to be limited to experts. I hope it reaches the broad audience it deserves. -- George Miller, Princeton University

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Philip Lieberman is Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

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Rewarding and well-written. [In] forcefully reminding those of his colleagues who may have forgotten that there is a biological basis for what makes us human Lieberman provides an alternative perspective which merits serious debate.
*Nature*

Lieberman shows that the apparently daunting task of establishing how our linguistic abilities evolved can be seriously tackled. By drawing on his work over a quarter of a century and on a wide range of other studies—most importantly of chimp behavior—he has given us an account that is both detailed and fascinating… Thoroughly recommended.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*

Lieberman…has built an international reputation for his theories of primate, Neanderthal, and modern human vocal capacities. This concise and well-written book is a highly readable synthesis of his views… Remarkable.
*American Journal of Human Biology*

Lieberman has distilled the best of his twenty-five years of accumulated wisdom about the human being’s unique gift of speech and has presented it here in much too readable a form to be limited to experts. I hope it reaches the broad audience it deserves.
*George Miller, Princeton University*

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