Evolution of communication systems: a comparative approach

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.