ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022
A convergent interaction engine: vocal communication among marmoset monkeys.
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- Hallmarks of social action in the vocal turn-taking of wild common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Primate ACC encodes natural vocal interactions in a 'cocktail party'.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Cooperative Breeding as a Likely Early Catalyst of Human Evolution.Evolutionary anthropology · 2025Review
- Vocal sequence diversity and length remain stable across ontogeny in a catarrhine monkey (Cercocebus atys).Communications biology · 2025Article
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- A model of marmoset monkey vocal turn-taking.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The neurobiology of vocal communication in marmosets.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Review
- Who is calling? Optimizing source identification from marmoset vocalizations with hierarchical machine learning classifiers.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Visual bodily signals as core devices for coordinating minds in interaction.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Revisiting the human 'interaction engine': comparative approaches to social action coordination.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Social tolerance and interactional opportunities as drivers of gestural redoings in orang-utans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Problem-solving in groups of common marmosets (PNAS nexus · 2022Article
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Abstract
To understand the primate origins of the human interaction engine, it is worthwhile to focus not only on great apes but also on callitrichid monkeys (marmosets and tamarins). Like humans, but unlike great apes, callitrichids are cooperative breeders, and thus habitually engage in coordinated joint actions, for instance when an infant is handed over from one group member to another. We first explore the hypothesis that these habitual cooperative interactions, the marmoset interactional ethology, are supported by the same key elements as found in the human interaction engine: mutual gaze (during joint action), turn-taking, volubility, as well as group-wide prosociality and trust. Marmosets show clear evidence of these features. We next examine the prediction that, if such an interaction engine can indeed give rise to more flexible communication, callitrichids may also possess elaborate communicative skills. A review of marmoset vocal communication confirms unusual abilities in these small primates: high volubility and large vocal repertoires, vocal learning and babbling in immatures, and voluntary usage and control. We end by discussing how the adoption of cooperative breeding during human evolution may have catalysed language evolution by adding these convergent consequences to the great ape-like cognitive system of our hominin ancestors. This article is part of the theme issue 'Revisiting the human 'interaction engine': comparative approaches to social action coordination'.
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