The 'social complexity hypothesis' for communication posits that groups with complex social
systems require more complex communicative systems to regulate interactions and relations …

Animals often gather information from other species by eavesdrop** on signals intended
for others. We review the extent, benefits, mechanisms, and ecological and evolutionary …

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 …

Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

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 …

Primates communicate with each other using a wide range of signals: olfactory signals to
mark territories, screams to recruit help while fighting, gestures to request food and facial …

Cooperation is central to human communication [1–3]. The foundation of cooperative verbal
communication is taking turns to speak. Given the universality of turn-taking [4], it is natural …

The study of animal signals began in earnest with the publication in 1872 of Charles
Darwin's The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals, which laid the basis for a …

Finding the evolutionary origins of human language in the communication systems of our
closest living relatives has, for the last several decades, been a major goal of many in the …