Prehistory of Language Book

1. Introduction: Rewards and Challenges of Multi-perspectival Work on the Evolution of Language and Speech, Rudolf Botha
2. Why Only Humans Have Language, Robin Dunbar
3. Is Sociality a Crucial Prerequisite for the Emergence of Language?, Luc Steels
4. Holistic Communication and the Co-evolution of Language and Music: Resurrecting an Old Idea, Steven Mithen
5. Music as a Communicative Medium, Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff
6. Cultural Niche construction: Evolution's Cradle of Language, John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland
7. Playing With Meaning: Normative Function and Structure in Play, Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
8. The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Non-verbal Deixis, David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins
9. The Directed Scratch: Evidence for a Referential Gesture in Chimpanzees?, Simone Pika and John C. Mitani
10. The Origins of the Lexicon: How a Word-store Evolved, Maggie Tallerman
11. Language-symbolization and Beyond, Eric Reuland
12. Grammaticalization From a Biolinguistic Perspective, Elly van Gelderen
13. Recursion, Phonological Storage Capacity, and the Evolution of Modern Speech, Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn
14. Why Women Speak Better Than Men and its Significance for Evolution, Bart de Boer
15. Mosaic Neurobiology and Anatomical Plausibility, Wendy K. WIlkins
References Index