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Editorial
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The previous issue of Brain highlighted contemporary and historical work on the neurology of the symbols that individuals use to communicate (Brain 2005; 128: 1231–2, 1233–4, 1407–17). In ‘Talking up the use of language,’ Colin Renfrew reviews The first idea: how symbols, language and intelligence evolved from our primate ancestors to modern humans by Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker. He brings an archaeological perspective to the interplay between language and the development of social behaviour (page 1763). Lord Renfrew is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, and in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. His influential work on the origins
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