35.587, Books: Life and Language Beyond Earth: Hickey (2023)

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Date: 22-Dec-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Life and Language Beyond Earth: Hickey (2023)


Title: Life and Language Beyond Earth
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009226417

Author: Raymond Hickey
Abstract:

Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if
life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might
their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them, and
indeed learn to communicate with them? This highly original,
thought-provoking book takes us on a fascinating journey over billions
of years, from the formation of galaxies and solar systems, to the
appearance of planets in the habitable zones of their parent stars,
and then to how biology and, ultimately, human life arose on our own
planet. It delves into how our brains and our language developed, in
order to explore the likelihood of communication beyond Earth and
whether it would evolve along similar lines. In the process,
fascinating insights from the fields of astronomy, evolutionary
biology, palaeoanthropology, neuroscience and linguistics are
uncovered, shedding new light on life as we know it on Earth, and
beyond.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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