Contradictions in interpreting data from different scientific domains exploring
anthopogenesis and language evolution will remain unsolved without a convergent …

Different traditions in research in linguistics and language origin differ in their assessment of
language origin in relation to the prior evolved animal communication systems. It is argued …

12.2 Features of Human Language To theorize about the evolution of human language is to
theorize about how human communication differs from the communication systems used by …

How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language
evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has …

Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in
communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior …

This article addresses a question which has in recent years been widely discussed: that of
the specific features of mental functions and language in humans as compared with other …

This chapter surveys progress in the realm of language evolution. Its main message is that,
like vocal learning in birds, human language is a highly complex, polygenic trait that recruits …

Biolinguistics is a fairly broad research program that allow for the exploration of many
avenues of research, including the formalist, functionalist, and nativist, and it insists on the …

The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where
currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought …