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This blog is dedicated to a new, absolutely new way of accounting for the evolution of language. The former posts gave the readers first clues to my attitude to language evolution. Here I show the book's table of contents. All three chapters, and especially the second take different roots in explaining the developments of human evolution and language evolution.     Sounds from the Garden of Eden: How Vocal expressions Evolved to Language Table of Contents Chapter 1 | Primordial Circumstances 7                                       The Magic of Words 7 1. The Scientific Approach. 8 2. The origin. 13 3. Factual Evidence. 15 4. What are we looking for? 19 5. What was the starting point? 25 6. What category of problem is it? 29 7. The Effects of Bipedalism. 33 8. A Foot Unable to Grasp. 36 9. Why do we use sound, of all means of communication? 40 10. The Initial Motive for Vocal Communication. 47 11. Additional Necessary Conditions, and the Roles of Survival Demands

how words have gained their nowadays forms

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The making of a word  Etymology  is very popular. Almost everyone enjoys suggesting and learning of words' origins. We know the popular etymologists, and the professional. An instance of popular etymology we find in the Hebrew Bible. The name of the Israelite leader Moses was in Hebrew 'Moshe'. The Biblical writer  tied this name to the Hebrew root 'masha', meaning  "take out of the water", as the story tells about the daughter of Pharaoh who found the baby Moses in the river and brought him to the Egyptian palace. But surely, the Semitic research revealed  that 'moshe', or Moses is a biblical version of the Egyptian word for 'child', or 'son'. Are we satisfied with this resolution? and the Egyptian word, where had it come from? When we look for a word at the etymological dictionary, there is a list of the word's preceding forms in ancient languages, as well as cognates in contemporary languages. The word 'child' re