The Ape That Spoke: Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind

John McCrone. Avon Books, $10 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71399-8

This exciting evolutionary odyssey, which was a BOMC and History Book Club selection in cloth, interweaves recent advances in linguistics and anthropology and controversially concludes that imagination and higher emotions are language-driven extensions of the animal mind. (Apr.)

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