What is it about?
A multidisciplinary effort to compile and integrate the latest comparative and neurological evidence on the evolution of language.
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Why is it important?
Changing evidence on factors that enabled the evolution of language are changing our understanding on when and how it evolved.
Perspectives
My perspective is providing evidence on pantomime and imitation in great apes. Pantomime and imitation have been proposed to have been critical evolutionary precursors to spoken language, and to have emerged only with the human lineage. Current evidence supports an earlier appearance of both, in the nonhuman great apes, so inferences about when and how these capabilities evolved need reconsideration
Anne Russon
York University
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This page is a summary of: The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language, Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, September 2018, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/is.18013.arb.
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