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Originally Posted by nomadicfollower

Can someone recommend a book on the origin and/or the evolution of language?

anything by steven pinker should do

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edit: i just saw his stuff:

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/tli/index.html

i'd stick to "the language instinct", though that is not a book on evolution per se.

however, th book's got a schweet bibliography that should feed you for years to come