The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

Dance is ubiquitous among humans and has received attention from several disciplines.
Ethnographic documentation suggests that dance has a signaling function in social …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it
develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective …

Great apes give gestures deliberately and voluntarily, in order to influence particular target
audiences, whose direction of attention they take into account when choosing which type of …

Modern humans live in an “exploded” network with unusually large circles of trust that form
due to prosociality toward unfamiliar people (ie xenophilia). In a set of experiments we …

Human expression is open-ended, versatile, and diverse, ranging from ordinary language
use to painting, from exaggerated displays of affection to micro-movements that aid …

It is sometimes argued that while human gestures are produced ostensively and
intentionally, great ape gestures are produced only intentionally. If true, this would make the …

This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human
language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist …

We and our colleagues have been doing studies of great ape gestural communication for
more than 30 years. Here we attempt to spell out what we have learned. Some aspects of …