The evolution of language from social cognition

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2014, Pages 5-9

  Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84900020462     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.04.003     Document Type: Review

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