Delving into the ancient brain

摘要

On Deep History and the Brain and The Origins of Meaning are both concerned to some degree with the evolution of human behaviour and the brain, but their similarity stops there. Historian Daniel Lord Smail takes on the full chronology of the human past and condenses it into a seamless narrative; James R. Hurford, a linguist, delves even further into the past to explore the evolutionary foundations of language.