It all starts by looking a baby right in the eyes (fwd link)

[phil cash cash]

It all starts by looking a baby right in the eyes
The origin of language stemmed from relationships, not genes
By Ruth Walker

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0914/p11s01-bogn.html

[a book review - THE FIRST IDEA: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence
Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans By Stanley
Greenspan and Stuart Shanker, Da Capo Press, 320 pp., $25]