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Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. His books include Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins and The Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution. (August 2016)
At the Birth of Language
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
August 18, 2016 issue
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