The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins

A Whiten, D Erdal - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hominin evolution took a remarkable pathway, as the foraging strategy extended to large
mammalian prey already hunted by a guild of specialist carnivores. How was this possible …

Birds, primates, and spoken language origins: behavioral phenotypes and neurobiological substrates

CI Petkov, ED Jarvis - Frontiers in evolutionary neuroscience, 2012‏ - frontiersin.org
Vocal learners such as humans and songbirds can learn to produce elaborate patterns of
structurally organized vocalizations, whereas many other vertebrates such as non-human …

[ספר][B] The minimalist program

N Chomsky - 2014‏ - books.google.com
A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating
and develo** the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program …

[ספר][B] The singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind, and body

SJ Mithen - 2006‏ - books.google.com
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 …

[ספר][B] The animal mind: An introduction to the philosophy of animal cognition

K Andrews - 2020‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

Vocal production learning in mammals revisited

VM Janik, M Knörnschild - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Vocal production learning, the ability to modify the structure of vocalizations as a result of
hearing those of others, has been studied extensively in birds but less attention has been …

[HTML][HTML] Wild chimpanzees inform ignorant group members of danger

C Crockford, RM Wittig, R Mundry, K Zuberbühler - Current Biology, 2012‏ - cell.com
The ability to recognize other individuals' mental states—their knowledge and beliefs, for
example—is a fundamental part of human cognition and may be unique to our species …

The evolution of the language faculty: clarifications and implications

WT Fitch, MD Hauser, N Chomsky - Cognition, 2005‏ - Elsevier
In this response to Pinker and Jackendoff's critique, we extend our previous framework for
discussion of language evolution, clarifying certain distinctions and elaborating on a number …

Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

M Fröhlich, C Sievers, SW Townsend… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[ספר][B] The origins of meaning: Language in the light of evolution

JR Hurford - 2007‏ - books.google.com
In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the
way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the …