Browsing by Subject "Comparative Psychology"
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Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Language: Insights from the Study of Pointing and Gaze in Infants, Bonobos, and Chimpanzees
(2017)The uniquely human ability to acquire language has led to two important and enduring questions: how did humans evolve the ability to communicate through language, and how do human infants acquire this ability so adeptly? ... -
What Makes Our Minds Human? Comparative Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Cognition
(2012)What makes our minds human? How did they evolve to be this way? This dissertation presents data from two complementary lines of research driven by these orienting questions. The first of these explores the `what' of human ...
