Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain Author:Philip Lieberman This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists, to argue that human language—though more sop... more »histicated than all other forms of animal communication—is not a qualitatively different ability from all forms of animal communication, does not require a quantum evolutionary leap to explain it, and is not unified in a single "language instinct." Language remains as it began, Lieberman argues: a device for coping with the world. "This is a thoughtful and scholarly book that is bound to expand the horizons of any … well-educated layperson or student who would like a brief review of this dynamic multidisciplinary field that encompasses neurology, primate studies, anthropology, psychology, and of course linguistics." —F. S. Szalay, Choice« less