This is a magnifying glass into a truly ancient and miraculous human skill. It is an exploratory journey of time and place through the evolutionary stages that led to speech. It applies various microscopic and macroscopic perspectives to the mapping of the skills of speech. It is also an outline of possibilities for the reader to evolve their own communication skills. This book hopes to raise knowledge and appreciation of a subject that is so much broader, deeper and more diverse thanit is given credit for
