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 …

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 …

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 …

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the
brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror …

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

Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they
represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic …

We report on the emergence of functional flexibility in vocalizations of human infants. This
vastly underappreciated capability becomes apparent when prelinguistic vocalizations …

Animal welfare is a key issue for industries that use or impact upon animals. The accurate
identification of welfare states is particularly relevant to the field of bioscience, where the …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Darwin observed that form, and in his view, meaning, of facial behaviour (observable
changes in the appearance of the face, often termed facial 'expression') is similar between a …