Evolution of communication systems : a comparative approach /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Oller, D. Kimbrough (ed.), Griebel, Ulrike (coed.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, c2004.
Colección:The Vienna series in theoretical biology
Materias:
Comunicación > Historia.
Comunicación animal.
Evolución humana.
Lenguaje y lenguas > Origen.
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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