Quotes by Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

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[I]t is almost impossible to talk about space without gesturing. Gesture is spontaneous, and is integral to individual e — Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to list — Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
But there is no agency in evolution; it is inadvertent. We survived, modified, and multiplied, just like any animal aliv — Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
The rules of syntax and intonation and words matured over time into the system we have today because they were progressi — Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, start — Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language