Why a species as successful as Homo sapiens should spend so much time in fiction, in
telling one another stories that neither side believes, at first seems an evolutionary riddle …

A New York Times bestseller:" A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of
nonhuman minds."—Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough …

The past 30 years have witnessed a continued and growing interest in the production and
comprehension of manual pointing gestures in nonhuman animals. Captive primates with …

Joint attention (JA) is an early manifestation of social cognition, commonly described as
interactions in which an infant looks or gestures to an adult female to share attention about …

Cooperation and communication likely coevolved in humans. However, the evolutionary
roots of this interdependence remain unclear. We address this issue by investigating the role …

It is well established that great apes communicate via intentionally produced, elaborate and
flexible gestural means. Yet relatively little is known about the most fundamental steps into …

Referential communication occurs when a sender elaborates its gestures to direct the
attention of a recipient to its role in pursuit of the desired goal, eg by pointing or showing an …

Primate Cognition is the study of cognitive processes, which represent internal mental
processes involved in discriminations, decisions, and behaviors of humans and other …

In primates, as well as in other mammals, play fighting (PF) is a complex form of playful
activity that is structurally similar to real fighting (RF) and may also be used in a competitive …

Successful collaboration often relies on individuals' capacity to communicate with each
other. Despite extensive research on chimpanzee communication, there is little evidence …