Most theories of how human cognition is unique propose specific representational
capacities or biases, often thought to arise through evolutionary change. In this Perspective …

Cognitive abilities of the human brain, including language, have expanded dramatically in
the course of our recent evolution from nonhuman primates, despite only minor apparent …

Vocal learning is the ability to modify vocal output on the basis of experience. Traditionally,
species have been classified as either displaying or lacking this ability. A recent proposal …

Recently, prominent theoretical linguists have argued for an explicit scenario for the
evolution of the human language capacity on the basis of its computational properties …

Large-scale estimations of the time of emergence of variants are essential to examine
hypotheses concerning human evolution with precision. Using an open repository of genetic …

Abstract Information complexity in animals is an indicator of advanced communication and
an intricate socio‐ecology. Zipf's Law of least effort has been used to assess the potential …

This paper makes three interconnected claims:(i) the “human condition” cannot be captured
by evolutionary narratives that reduce it to a recent 'cognitive modernity', nor by narratives …

In their recent book, Ladyman and Wiesner (What is a complex system?, Yale University
Press, 2020) delineate the bounds of the exciting interdisciplinary field of complexity …

For decades, interdisciplinary research efforts have accumulated insights that diminish the
significance of the classic nature versus nurture dichotomy, instead calling for a nuanced …

This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of
our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic …