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Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
[Gesture 5:1/2] 2005
► pp. 285–304
Book review

Michael C. Corballis. From hand to mouth. The origins of language
Princeton, Oxford:: Princeton University Press, (2002).

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Published online: 16 December 2005
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