The strong predominance of right-handedness appears to be a uniquely human
characteristic, whereas the left-cerebral dominance for vocalization occurs in many species …

▪ Abstract Cultural primatology is hypothesized on the basis of social learning of group-
specific behavior by nonhuman primates, especially in nature. Scholars ask different …

What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at
long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a
major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current …

This groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled
the psychological establishment when it was first published in 1998 by claiming that parents …

The origins of human language remains a major question in evolutionary science. Unique to
human language is the capacity to flexibly recombine a limited sound set into words and …

The study of the archaeological remains of fossil hominins must rely on reconstructions to
elucidate the behaviour that may have resulted in particular stone tools and their …

In this chapter we survey the occurrence of vocal learning in mammals and discuss possible
reasons it has evolved. But first it is important to be clear about what we mean by “vocal …

In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary underpinnings that preceded the
first glimmerings of language, mother-infant gestural and vocal interactions are compared in …