Evolution of communication systems : a comparative approach / edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel.

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Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.
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245 0 0 |a Evolution of communication systems :  |b a comparative approach /  |c edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c c2004. 
300 |a x, 338 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
440 4 |a The Vienna series in theoretical biology 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |g I.  |t Introduction --  |g 1.  |t Theoretical and methodological tools for comparison and evolutionary modeling of communications systems /  |r D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel --  |g II.  |t Philosophical issues : conceptions and foundations --  |g 2.  |t On reading signs : some differences between us and others /  |r Ruth Garrett Millikan --  |g 3.  |t Primitive content, translation, and the emergence of meaning in animal communication /  |r William F. Harms --  |g 4.  |t Underpinnings for a theory of communicative evolution /  |r D. Kimbrough Oller --  |g III.  |t Methodological and theoretical developments for the future of evolutionary study of communication systems --  |g 5.  |t Social and cultural learning in the evolution of human communication /  |r Luc Steels --  |g 6.  |t The role of learning and development in language evolution : a connectionist perspective /  |r Morten H. Christiansen and Rick Dale --  |g 7.  |t Repeated patterns in behavior and other biological phenomena /  |r Magnus S. Magnusson --  |g IV.  |t Animal communication systems : a comparative basis --  |g 8.  |t Social processes in the evolution of complex cognition and communication /  |r Charles T. Snowdon --  |g 9.  |t Human infant crying as an animal communication system : insights from an assessment/management approach /  |r Donald H. Owings and Debra M. Zeifman --  |g 10.  |t Evolution of communication from an avian perspective /  |r Irene M. Pepperberg --  |g 11.  |t Cephalopod skin displays : from concealment to communication /  |r Jennifer A. Mather --  |g V.  |t Primitive communication systems and language --  |g 12.  |t The evolution of language : from signals to symbols to system /  |r Chris Sinha --  |g 13.  |t Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication /  |r Peter Gardenfors --  |g 14.  |t Language, music, and laughter in evolutionary perspective /  |r R. I. M. Dunbar --  |g 15.  |t Kin selection and "mother tongues" : a neglected component in language evolution /  |r W. Tecumseh Fitch --  |g 16.  |t Language beyond our grasp : what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language /  |r James R. Hurford --  |g 17.  |t How far is language beyond our grasp? : a response to Hurford /  |r Michael A. Arbib --  |g VI.  |t Concluding remarks --  |g 18.  |t Directions for research in comparative communication systems /  |r D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel. 
650 0 |a Communication  |x History. 
650 0 |a Animal communication. 
650 0 |a Human evolution. 
650 0 |a Language and languages  |x Origin. 
700 1 |a Oller, D. Kimbrough. 
700 1 |a Griebel, Ulrike. 
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