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Papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Evolution of Language, held in 2000 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: MAKING READY FOR LANGUAGE: NECESSARY, BUT NOT SUFFICIENT ; PART II: INTERNAL TRIGGERS TO TRANSITION: GENES, PROCESSING, CULTURE, GESTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY ; PART III: EXTERNAL TRIGGERS TO TRANSITION: ENVIRONMENT, POPULATION, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT ; PART IV: THE ONWARD JOURNEY: DETERMINING THE SHAPE OF LANGUAGE

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Language and languages--Origin--Congresses.

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