The evolutionary roots of human communication are difficult to trace, but recent comparative research suggests that the first key step in that evolutionary hist

Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including

Human language is unique among animals. We assume that complex cognitive capacities in general and language in particular evolved gradually and thus are manifes

Leading primatologists, cognitive scientists, anthropologists, and linguists consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the st

Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and t