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Evolution of communication systems : a comparative approach
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Evolution of communication systems : a comparative approach

Author: D Kimbrough Oller; Ulrike Griebel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series: Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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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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