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The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, animal behaviour, anthropology and archaeology, he demonstrates how these recursive structures led to the emergence of language and speech, which ultimately enabled us to share our thoughts, plan with others, and reshape our environment to better reflect our creative imaginations.