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MICHAEL C. CORBALLIS is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Auckland. He has written widely in journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language and, most recently, The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization.

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