Evolution of Human Languages

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Author:

Hawkins, John
Gell-Mann, Murray

ISBN:

978-0-201-52573-1

Publication Date:

Oct 1992

Publisher:

Routledge

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $39.95

Book Description:

This proceedings volume from a workshop by the same name sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute in August, 1989, covers a range of disciplines and subdisciplines of relevance to linguistics, phonetics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, sociolinguistics, archaeological and anthropological linguistics, neuroanatomy, biology, and physics.

Book Details

Pages:	366
Detailed Subjects:	Science / Life Sciences / Evolution Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	6 x 8.75 Inches
Book Weight:	1.1 Pounds

Author Biography

Hawkins, John (Author)

Murray Gell-Mann was born on September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1948 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. His discovery of quarks, a concept in particle physics, earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969. He wrote several books including The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. He has received several awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize, the Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award, the Franklin Medal, the Research Corporation Award, the John J. Carty Medal, and the Helmholtz Medal. He died on May 24, 2019 at the age of 89.

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