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
Directions for research in comparative communication systems / D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Greibel.
