La longue marche du genre humain : de la bipédie à la parole / Jean-Louis Heim.

Music and the origins of language : theories from the French Enlightenment / Downing A. Thomas.

An essay on the study of antiquities . To which are added some cursory remarks on the origin of language in general, and of the Greek language in particular.

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La longue marche du genre humain : de la bipédie à la parole / Jean-Louis Heim.

Music and the origins of language : theories from the French Enlightenment / Downing A. Thomas.

An essay on the study of antiquities . To which are added some cursory remarks on the origin of language in general, and of the Greek language in particular.