Download or read book Bio-linguistics written by Talmy Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In enlarging the cross-disciplinary domain, the book examines the parallels between language evolution and language diachrony. Sociality, cooperation and communication are shown to be rooted in a common evolutionary source, the kin-based hunting-and-gathering society of intimates.