RECENT REVIEWS by Jim Hurford

• Review of Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth Bates (Eds), Language Development: the essential readings. Blackwell publishers, Oxford, 2001. To appear (perhaps in shortened form) in Quarterly Review of Biology.
  
  
• Review of Michael Corballis, From Hand to Mouth: the origins of language, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2002. Journal of Linguistics, 39(1).
  
  
• Review of Philip Lieberman, Human Language and our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2000. Quarterly Review of Biology,76,3: 383.
  
  
• Review of Barbara J. King (Ed.), 1999, The Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. Review in Quarterly Review of Biology, 76,1:116-118 (March, 2001).
  
  
• Review of Geoffrey Sampson, 1997/1999 Educating Eve: the `language instinct' debate. Cassell, London. Journal of Linguistics, 36,3:663-664 (2000). To view from postscript file.
  
  
• Review of Terrence Deacon, 1997 The Symbolic Species: The co-evolution of language and the human brain , Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London. The Times Literary Supplement, October 23rd, 1998, p.34. To view from postscript file.
  
  
• Review of Andrew Lock and Charles Peters (Eds) 1996 Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford. Journal of Linguistics, 35,1:200-206 (1999). To view from postscript file.
  
  
• Review of Jean Aitchison, 1996 The Seeds of Speech: Language origin and evolution , Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics, Cambridge University Press. Review for Quarterly Review of Biology. To view from postscript file.