Humans are argued to be unique in their ability and motivation to share attention with others
about external entities—sharing attention for sharing's sake. Indeed, in humans, using …

Abstract Concepts such as “symbolism” and “symbolic cognition” often remain unspecified in
discussions the symbolic capacities of earlier hominins. In this paper, I use conceptual tools …

The ability to understand other minds is key to communication, social organization, and
culture, and actively researched in disciplines such as psychology, ethology, and …

One promising method to tackle the question,“In which modality did language evolve?” is by
studying the ontogenetic trajectory of signals in human's closest living relatives, including …

We investigated the communicative gestures used by chimpanzee and human infants. In
contrast to previous studies, we compared the species at the same age (12–14 months) and …

Living organisms throughout the animal kingdom habitually communicate with multi-modal
signals that use multiple sensory channels. Such composite signals vary in their …

Background and Aim: Goats are valuable livestock because they can generate meat and
milk for human consumption. Goat husbandry is becoming more intensive due to the …

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research
conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the …

The article discusses certain limitations of the “McDowellian language game” and its
approach to naturalism, arguing that it remains too detached from contemporary scientific …

Human culture thrives by virtue of communication, yet whether communication plays an
influential role in the cultural lives of other animals remains understudied. Here, we …