How the Brain Got Language
The Mirror System Hypothesis
by Michael A. Arbib
413 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780199896684
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Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. In this book, Michael Arbib presents the Mirror System Hypothesis, which suggests how complex imitation supported the breakthrough to pantomime, protosign and protospeech and then, through cultural evolution, to fully fledged languages.
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