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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
D Kimbrough Oller; Ulrike Griebel |
| ISBN: | 0262151111 9780262151115 |
| OCLC Number: | 54543697 |
| Description: | x, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I. INTRODUCTION -- Theoretical and methodological tools for comparison and evolutionary modeling of communication systems / D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Griebel -- II. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: CONCEPTIONS AND FOUNDATIONS -- On reading signs: some differences between us and the others / Ruth Garrett Millikan -- Primitive content, translation, and the emergence of meaning in animal communication / William F. Harms -- Underpinnings for a theory of communicative evolution / D. Kimbrough Oller -- III. METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS -- Social and cultural learning in the evolution of human communication / Luc Steels -- The role of learning and development in language evolution: a connectionist perspective / Morten H. Christiansen, Rick Dale -- Repeated patterns in behavior and other biological phenomena / Magnus S. Magnusson -- IV. ANIMAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE BASIS -- Social processes in the evolution of complex cognition and communication / Charles T. Snowdon -- Human infant crying as an animal communication system: insights from an assessment/management approach / Donald H. Owings, Debra M. Zeifman -- Evolution of communication from an Avian perspective / Irene M. Pepperberg -- Cephalopod skin displays: from concealment to communication / Jennifer A. Mather -- V. PRIMITIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGE -- The evolution of language: from signals to symbols to system / Chris Sinha -- Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication / Peter Gärdenfors -- Language, music, and laughter in evolutionary perspective / R.I.M. Dunbar -- Kin selection and "mother tongues": a neglected component in language evolution / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language / James R. Hurford -- How far is language beyond our grasp? A response to Hurford / Michael A. Arbib -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Directions for research in comparative communication systems / D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Greibel. |
| Series Title: | Vienna series in theoretical biology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel. |
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- Communication -- History.
- Animal communication.
- Human evolution.
- Language and languages -- Origin.
- Communication -- history.
- Animal Communication.
- Biological Evolution.
- Cognition.
- Language Development.
- Physiology, Comparative.
- Communication -- Histoire.
- Communication animale.
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- Langage et langues -- Origines.
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