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    Dean Falk's book Finding Our Tongues offers a new theory about the origins of human language. It argues that language did not evolve from abstract thinking related to male activities like hunting, but rather from "Motherese" - the melodic baby talk used universally by parents to soothe infants. By using Motherese when putting babies down to work, mothers developed the vocalizations that provided the basis for language and also contributed to music and art. Drawing on neuroscience and anthropology, Falk challenges the conventional view that language emerged from abstract thinking related to male activities.

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    Dean Falk's book Finding Our Tongues offers a new theory about the origins of human language. It argues that language did not evolve from abstract thinking related to male activities like hunting, but rather from "Motherese" - the melodic baby talk used universally by parents to soothe infants. By using Motherese when putting babies down to work, mothers developed the vocalizations that provided the basis for language and also contributed to music and art. Drawing on neuroscience and anthropology, Falk challenges the conventional view that language emerged from abstract thinking related to male activities.

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    Dean Falk's book Finding Our Tongues offers a new theory about the origins of human language. It argues that language did not evolve from abstract thinking related to male activities like hunting, but rather from "Motherese" - the melodic baby talk used universally by parents to soothe infants. By using Motherese when putting babies down to work, mothers developed the vocalizations that provided the basis for language and also contributed to music and art. Drawing on neuroscience and anthropology, Falk challenges the conventional view that language emerged from abstract thinking related to male activities.

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    Finding our tongues: mothers, infants and the origins of language / Dean
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    Falk, Dean
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    Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such
    classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken
    language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk overturns this established idea, offering a daring new theory
    that springs from a simple observation: parents all over the world, in all cultures, talk to infants by using
    baby talk or Motherese. Falk shows how Motherese developed as a way of reassuring babies when mothers
    had to put them down in order to do work. The melodic vocalizations of early Motherese not only provided
    the basis of language but also contributed to the growth of music and art.
    Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with classic anthropology, Falk offers a potent challenge to
    conventional wisdom about the emergence of human language.

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