Did childcare fuel language? A recent book on the evolution of language makes the case that rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for how language evolved
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Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but wants more evidence from Madeleine Beekman’s The Origin of Language