1. Preface to the Special Issue on the Biology and Evolution of Language

   • W. Tecumseh Fitch

   Preface 01 July 2016 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution

   • W. Tecumseh Fitch

   Overview 01 February 2017 Pages: 3 - 33

   

3. Evolution of language: Lessons from the genome

   • Simon E. Fisher

   Brief Report Open access 18 July 2016 Pages: 34 - 40

4. Evolution of the neural language network

   • Angela D. Friederici

   Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 41 - 47

   

5. The human infant brain: A neural architecture able to learn language

   • Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

   Brief Report 24 January 2017 Pages: 48 - 55

   

6. A cortical circuit for voluntary laryngeal control: Implications for the evolution language

   • Gregory Hickok

   Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 56 - 63

   

7. How can we detect when language emerged?

   • Ian Tattersall

   Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 64 - 67

8. Where have all the (ape) gestures gone?

   • Richard W. Byrne
   • Hélène Cochet

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2016 Pages: 68 - 71

9. Primate vocal production and the riddle of language evolution

   • Julia Fischer

   Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 72 - 78

   

10. Precursors to language: Social cognition and pragmatic inference in primates

    • Robert M. Seyfarth
    • Dorothy L. Cheney

    OriginalPaper 01 July 2016 Pages: 79 - 84

    

11. The Question of Capacity: Why Enculturated and Trained Animals have much to Tell Us about the Evolution of Language

    • Heidi Lyn

    Brief Report 24 January 2017 Pages: 85 - 90

12. Assessing the uniqueness of language: Animal grammatical abilities take center stage

    • Carel ten Cate

    Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 91 - 96

13. Atypical birdsong and artificial languages provide insights into how communication systems are shaped by learning, use, and transmission

    • Olga Fehér

    Brief Report Open access 20 July 2016 Pages: 97 - 105

14. Sexual communication and domestication may give rise to the signal complexity necessary for the emergence of language: An indication from songbird studies

    • Kazuo Okanoya

    Brief Report 24 January 2017 Pages: 106 - 110

15. What bats have to say about speech and language

    • Sonja C. Vernes

    OriginalPaper Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 111 - 117

16. Culture and biology in the origins of linguistic structure

    • Simon Kirby

    Brief Report Open access 24 January 2017 Pages: 118 - 137

    

17. Restrictiveness matters

    • David Adger

    Brief Report Open access 24 January 2017 Pages: 138 - 139

18. The continuing legacy of nature versus nurture in biolinguistics

    • Daniel L. Bowling

    Brief Report Open access 24 January 2017 Pages: 140 - 141

19. Toward the Language-Ready Brain: Biological Evolution and Primate Comparisons

    • Michael A. Arbib

    OriginalPaper 01 July 2016 Pages: 142 - 150

    

20. Darwinian perspectives on the evolution of human languages

    • Mark Pagel

    Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 151 - 157

    

21. Evolution of speech and evolution of language

    • Bart de Boer

    Brief Report 03 August 2016 Pages: 158 - 162

22. Reflections on the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins

    • Adam Kendon

    OriginalPaper Open access 20 July 2016 Pages: 163 - 170

23. Marr’s levels and the minimalist program

    • Mark Johnson

    OriginalPaper 01 July 2016 Pages: 171 - 174

24. On simplicity and emergence

    • Andrew Perfors

    Brief Report 24 January 2017 Pages: 175 - 176

25. Using music to study the evolution of cognitive mechanisms relevant to language

    • Aniruddh D. Patel

    Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 177 - 180

26. Animal language studies: What happened?

    • Irene M. Pepperberg

    Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 181 - 185

27. Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution

    • Thomas C. Scott-Phillips

    OriginalPaper Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 186 - 189

    

28. Human language is a culturally evolving system

    • Luc Steels

    Brief Report 20 July 2016 Pages: 190 - 193

29. The language-ready head: Evolutionary considerations

    • Cedric Boeckx

    Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 194 - 199

30. The language capacity: architecture and evolution

    • Noam Chomsky

    Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 200 - 203

31. Key cognitive preconditions for the evolution of language

    • Merlin Donald

    Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 204 - 208

32. Group size, vocal grooming and the origins of language

    • R. I. M. Dunbar

    Brief Report 26 July 2016 Pages: 209 - 212

33. What the hands can tell us about language emergence

    • Susan Goldin-Meadow

    Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 213 - 218

34. Linear grammar as a possible stepping-stone in the evolution of language

    • Ray Jackendoff
    • Eva Wittenberg

    Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 219 - 224

    

35. The origins of language in teaching

    • Kevin N. Laland

    Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 225 - 231

36. Emancipation of the voice: Vocal complexity as a fitness indicator

    • John L. Locke

    Brief Report 18 July 2016 Pages: 232 - 237

37. Laughter as an approach to vocal evolution: The bipedal theory

    • Robert R. Provine

    Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 238 - 244