A regular commenter on this blog, Janet Kwasniak, has done me the kindness of reviewing the book on her own fine blog ("A blog on consciouness"):
If you are at all interested in language, human nature, evolution, culture (and I expect many of my readers are interested in that type of subject matter) get the book and have a good read over Christmas... it is many head-and-shoulders above other attempts to trace language’s origins.
Read the whole review here: http://charbonniers.org/2011/11/22
I got my copy yesterday. I don't want to comment in detail before I've finished, but in general, I've enjoyed those parts that advance the main theme, while being less impressed with some of the parenthetical asides.
Posted by: Outerhoard.wordpress.com | November 23, 2011 at 03:20 AM