ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2017
Group size, vocal grooming and the origins of language.
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- Musicality in human vocal communication: an evolutionary perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Does Social Complexity Drive Vocal Complexity? Insights from the Two African Elephant Species.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
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- Heart Rate Variability Synchronizes When Non-experts Vocalize Together.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Infinite Generation of Language Unreachable From a Stepwise Approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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- Breaking Bread: the Functions of Social Eating.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
I argue that speech and language evolved through a series of stages individually designed to break through successive glass ceilings on group size. Language was simply the last of these (and hence evolved late in hominin evolution), but its precursors (laughter and singing) each played a crucial role in preparing the way for speech production.
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