The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only
partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world …

Language's intentional nature has been highlighted as a crucial feature distinguishing it
from other communication systems. Specifically, language is often thought to depend on …

A New York Times bestseller:" A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of
nonhuman minds."—Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough …

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 …

There would be little adaptive value in a complex communication system like human
language if there were no ways to detect and correct problems. A systematic comparison of …

Determining the intentionality of primate communication is critical to understanding the
evolution of human language. Although intentional signalling has been claimed for some …

Language, humans' most distinctive trait, still remains a 'mystery'for evolutionary theory. It is
underpinned by a universal infrastructure—cooperative turn-taking—which has been …

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 …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (P. paniscus) are our closest living relatives,
with the human lineage diverging from the Pan lineage only around five to seven Mya, but …