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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

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