Human communication is most clearly distinguished from the communication of other
primate species by its use of (1) symbols and (2) grammar. This means that progress on …

We readily accept many parallels between the behavior of ourselves and our nonhuman
primate cousins. Chimpanzees, as well as lions and wolves, hunt cooperatively. Cultural …

The anatomy of the nonhuman primate vocal tract is not fundamentally different from the
human one. Notwithstanding, nonhuman primates are remarkably unskillful at controlling …

While some approaches to language evolution have been thoroughly linguistic yet without
becoming particularly social, others have had the opposite problem. Coming out of an …

How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of
human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and …

Discussion of language origins, since the nineteenth century not academically respectable,
has revived in the last thirty years. Expanded knowledge of animal communication, cognitive …

Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no
communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any …

We explain why general techniques from formal linguistics can and should be applied to the
analysis of monkey communication–in the areas of syntax and especially semantics. An …

This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian
framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning the vast gains in phonology …

Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears
inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to …