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As you can see from the title, the intended audience for this book is "children". It is intended for 4th to 6th graders. However, I dare to recommend this book to the students of the University of Tokyo because I want them to read it as one of the results collaboration between the humanities and sciences.
 
This book was created by myself and my colleagues who have been working together for more than 20 years on the origin and evolution of language and mind. The story goes as follows: two elementary school students decide to investigate whether animals can understand language as a summer research project. They visit five researchers: an anthropologist, a zoologist, a psychologist, a linguist, and a computer scientist. I myself appear as the zoologist, Dr. Canary. What is the difference between human language and animal communication? Is language for thinking or communication? Are we born with a mechanism to acquire language? What is the relationship between language and the mind? These questions have been considered as so-called "humanities" questions. Today, however, these questions can be addressed not only through humanities, but also through science.
 
For example, we can examine animal communication and study the similarities and differences with human language to consider the origin of language. By calculating the morphology