Précis of How the brain got language: The Mirror System Hypothesis

Part I. Setting the Stage 1. Underneath the Lampposts 2. Perspectives on Human Languages 3. Vocalization and Gesture in Monkey and Ape 4. Human Brain, Monkey Brain, and Praxis 5. Mirror Neurons and Mirror Systems Part II. Developing the Hypothesis 6. Signposts: The Argument of the Book Revealed 7. Simple and Complex Imitation 8. Via Pantomime to Protosign 9. Protosign and Protospeech: An Expanding Spiral 10. How Languages Got Started 11. How the Child Acquires Language 12. How Languages Emerge 13. How Languages Keep Changing