Steven Mithen

Steven Mithen is a British archaeologist and academic who is Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading and one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric cognition and the origins of language. The Language Puzzle explores one of the great mysteries of human evolution — how and why our species developed the extraordinary capacity for language. Mithen combines archaeological evidence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology to piece together the story. His audiobooks and books are fascinating listening and reading for anyone curious about the origins of human language, the evolution of the mind, and what makes us uniquely human.