Derek Bickerton is a world-renowned scholar, famous for his study of pidgins and creoles, and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii. His discovery that creole languages could be created by children from unstructured input within a single generation led Bickerton to question where language originally came from. The book The Language of Adam (2009) is an interdisciplinary study of the origins of language. She poses this question within the framework of a new evolutionary theory - the theory of “emergence of niches”, which assumes the activity of animals in building niches: animals form them and are formed themselves, adapting to them. On this basis, hypotheses are built about why and how the need for language could arise, what was the first step from the communication systems of animals to the “language of Adam”. The book is addressed to linguists, psychologists, specialists in the field of cognitive sciences and those readers who are interested in questions of the origin of intelligent behavior and language.