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Third printing, and first paperback printing, with a new foreword by the author, 2014
Paperback ISBN 978-0-691-16094-8
The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows
Corballis, Michael C.
The recursive mind : the origins of human language, thought, and civilization / Michael C. Corballis.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-14547-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Evolutionary psychology. 2. Human evolution.
3. Brain—Evolution. 4. Language and languages—Origin. I. Title.
BF701.C665 2011
155.7—dc22 2010043084
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