Christine Kenally

The first author that spoke was Christine Kenally, and I really like the phrases she used in her book, The First Word. One of them was the Tarzan meets Jane phase. I thought this was really interesting because it reminds of when you first meet someone that you like and you just want to know everything about them. Also, she was reading something that was along the lines of speaking is little more than letting out air or something like that. I thought that this was a really pretty way of saying this. I think that what she was saying is that people are so use to speaking that it is just like breathing, and that is really true. It was interesting the research that she had to do for this book. It was a lot of research that involved studying anthology, digital evolution, genetics, and linguistics. I thought it was cool how she was comparing our language to monkeys like bonobos. It was also interesting because I just studied that in my anthropology class. Also all three writers either talked about monkeys or anthropology. Kenally talked about both, Josh Pager talked about anthropology, and Stacy Sullivan was talking about the Gorilla troop. Even, though she was not talking about actual gorillas.