The origins of music, language, mind and body</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="The origins of music, language, mind and body"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="The,origins,of,music,,language,,mind,and,body"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">01-11-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>The origins of music, language, mind and body</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (Sunday Times): The Singing Neanderthals, as praiseworthy as Steven Mithen’s previous titles, The Prehistory of the Mind and After the Ice, is more about song than neanderthals: it covers not just the famed creatures that dominated Europe for 400,000 years, but also their and our ancestors, back to 4.5m years ago. His theme is language, and he proposes that our separate speaking and musical skills evolved from a common ability to express not words, but rhythm and melody. <br> <br>The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body <br>by Steven Mithen <br>Weidenfeld £20 pp374 <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1842740,00.html" target="blank">www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1842740,00.html</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show