Social Cognition and the Evolution of Language: Constructing Cognitive Phylogenies

Neuron

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 795-814

  Fitch, W Tecumseh ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^a   Bugnyar, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950232929     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.011     Document Type: Review

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