Conventional communication, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after humans already possessed these natural gestures and their shared intentionality ...

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the.

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the ...

PDF | This bold and wide-ranging book, based on Tomasello's 2006 Jean Nicod Lectures, argues inter alia for the following hypotheses: 1. the evolution.

The book under review, Origins of Human Communication, is one of the few that place the question of the emergence of human language in the broader context of ...

Origins of Human Communication. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 393pp. A very nice copy in dust jacket. fine/fine.

And, finally, as already indicated, it seems that complex vocal communication can be traced back somewhere before H. heidelbergensis, at over half a million ...

experimental work with children and chimps, Origins of human communication offers nuanced and rich answers to these questions. Ch. 1, 'A focus on infrastructure ...

15 de mar. de 2010 · Tomasello's third main hypothesis concerns their emergence. He argues that, given the communicative use of natural gestures backed by shared ...