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Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on 'living linguistic fossils' such as 'ape talk,' the 'two-word' stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows how a primitive 'protolanguage' could have offered Homo erectus a novel ecological niche. He goes on to demonstrate how this protolanguage could have developed into the languages we speak today.

@book{bickerton90languageAnd,
  author={D. Bickerton},
  title={Language and Species},
  year={1990},
  publisher={University of Chicago Press},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/bickerton90languageAnd.html}
}