Preface to the Special Issue on the Biology and Evolution of Language W. Tecumseh Fitch Preface 01 July 2016 Pages: 1 - 2
Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution W. Tecumseh Fitch Overview 01 February 2017 Pages: 3 - 33
Evolution of language: Lessons from the genome Simon E. Fisher Brief Report Open access 18 July 2016 Pages: 34 - 40
Evolution of the neural language network Angela D. Friederici Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 41 - 47
The human infant brain: A neural architecture able to learn language Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz Brief Report 24 January 2017 Pages: 48 - 55
A cortical circuit for voluntary laryngeal control: Implications for the evolution language Gregory Hickok Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 56 - 63
Where have all the (ape) gestures gone? Richard W. ByrneHélène Cochet OriginalPaper 01 July 2016 Pages: 68 - 71
Primate vocal production and the riddle of language evolution Julia Fischer Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 72 - 78
Precursors to language: Social cognition and pragmatic inference in primates Robert M. SeyfarthDorothy L. Cheney OriginalPaper 01 July 2016 Pages: 79 - 84
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
Assessing the uniqueness of language: Animal grammatical abilities take center stage Carel ten Cate Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 91 - 96
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
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
What bats have to say about speech and language Sonja C. Vernes OriginalPaper Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 111 - 117
Culture and biology in the origins of linguistic structure Simon Kirby Brief Report Open access 24 January 2017 Pages: 118 - 137
The continuing legacy of nature versus nurture in biolinguistics Daniel L. Bowling Brief Report Open access 24 January 2017 Pages: 140 - 141
Toward the Language-Ready Brain: Biological Evolution and Primate Comparisons Michael A. Arbib OriginalPaper 01 July 2016 Pages: 142 - 150
Darwinian perspectives on the evolution of human languages Mark Pagel Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 151 - 157
Evolution of speech and evolution of language Bart de Boer Brief Report 03 August 2016 Pages: 158 - 162
Reflections on the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins Adam Kendon OriginalPaper Open access 20 July 2016 Pages: 163 - 170
Using music to study the evolution of cognitive mechanisms relevant to language Aniruddh D. Patel Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 177 - 180
Animal language studies: What happened? Irene M. Pepperberg Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 181 - 185
Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution Thomas C. Scott-Phillips OriginalPaper Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 186 - 189
The language-ready head: Evolutionary considerations Cedric Boeckx Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 194 - 199
The language capacity: architecture and evolution Noam Chomsky Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 200 - 203
Key cognitive preconditions for the evolution of language Merlin Donald Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 204 - 208
Group size, vocal grooming and the origins of language R. I. M. Dunbar Brief Report 26 July 2016 Pages: 209 - 212
What the hands can tell us about language emergence Susan Goldin-Meadow Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 213 - 218
Linear grammar as a possible stepping-stone in the evolution of language Ray JackendoffEva Wittenberg Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 219 - 224
The origins of language in teaching Kevin N. Laland Brief Report Open access 01 July 2016 Pages: 225 - 231
Emancipation of the voice: Vocal complexity as a fitness indicator John L. Locke Brief Report 18 July 2016 Pages: 232 - 237
Laughter as an approach to vocal evolution: The bipedal theory Robert R. Provine Brief Report 01 July 2016 Pages: 238 - 244