Evolution of communication systems : a comparative approach /

Corporate Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Authors: Oller, D. Kimbrough
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2004
Series:The Vienna series in theoretical biology
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500 |a 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 Gardenfors -- 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 
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