Social pressure drives “conversational rules” in great apes

Measuring complexity in organisms and organizations

(2021) Nancy Rebout et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Understanding Language Evolution: Beyond Pan ‐Centrism

(2020) Adriano R. Lameira et al.   BIOESSAYS

Breaking conversational rules matters to captive gorillas: A playback experiment

(2020) Loïc Pougnault et al.   Scientific Reports

Tolerant and intolerant macaques show different levels of structural complexity in their vocal communication

(2020) Nancy Rebout et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variable use of polyadic grooming and its effect on access to social partners in wild chimpanzees and bonobos

(2020) Cédric Girard-Buttoz et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolution of communication signals and information during species radiation

(2020) Maxime Garcia et al.   Nature Communications

The social functions of complex vocal sequences in wild geladas

(2019) Morgan L. Gustison et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Clarifying and expanding the social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity

(2019) Louise Peckre et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Social bonding drives vocal exchanges in Bonobos

(2019) Florence Levréro et al.   Scientific Reports

From groups to communities in western lowland gorillas

(2019) Giovanni Forcina et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On understanding the nature and evolution of social cognition: a need for the study of communication

(2019) Todd M. Freeberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans

(2019) Madelaine Böhme et al.   NATURE

The origins of gestures and language: history, current advances and proposed theories

(2019) Jacques Prieur et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

(2019) Nathan S. Upham et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Long-term group membership and dynamics in a wild western lowland gorilla population (Gorilla gorilla gorilla ) inferred using non-invasive genetics

(2018) Laura Hagemann et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Social basis of vocal interactions in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla).

(2018) Alban Lemasson et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Quantifying uncertainty due to fission–fusion dynamics as a component of social complexity

(2018) Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Age and social affinity effects on contact call interactions in free-ranging spider monkeys

(2018) M. Briseno-Jaramillo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Baboon vocal repertoires and the evolution of primate vocal diversity

(2018) Kurt Hammerschmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Sex-specific association patterns in bonobos and chimpanzees reflect species differences in cooperation

(2017) Martin Surbeck et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos

(2016) Isaac Schamberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence

(2016) José María Gómez et al.   NATURE

Early development of turn-taking with parents shapes vocal acoustics in infant marmoset monkeys

(2016) Daniel Y. Takahashi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How chimpanzees cooperate in a competitive world

(2016) Malini Suchak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Turn-taking in Human Communication – Origins and Implications for Language Processing

(2016) Stephen C. Levinson   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Voice Modulation: A Window into the Origins of Human Vocal Control?

(2016) Katarzyna Pisanski et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences

(2016) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   Scientific Reports

Audience effects, but not environmental influences, explain variation in gorilla close distance vocalizations-A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis

(2015) Daniela Hedwig et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Measuring social complexity

(2015) Thore J. Bergman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Grooming-at-a-distance by exchanging calls in non-human primates

(2015) Malgorzata Arlet et al.   Biology Letters

Social Complexity as a Driver of Communication and Cognition

(2015) Kendra B. Sewall   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Estimating vocal repertoire size is like collecting coupons: A theoretical framework with heterogeneity in signal abundance

(2015) Arik Kershenbaum et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Bonobo habituation in a forest–savanna mosaic habitat: influence of ape species, habitat type, and sociocultural context

(2015) Victor Narat et al.   PRIMATES

Vocal turn-taking in a non-human primate is learned during ontogeny

(2015) C. P. Chow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social shaping of voices does not impair phenotype matching of kinship in mandrills

(2015) F. Levréro et al.   Nature Communications

Functional flexibility in wild bonobo vocal behaviour

(2015) Zanna Clay et al.   PeerJ

Contextual correlates of syntactic variation in mountain and western gorilla close-distance vocalizations: Indications for lexical or phonological syntax?

(2014) Daniela Hedwig et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Social and ecological correlates of long-distance pant hoot calls in male chimpanzees

(2014) Pawel Fedurek et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus

(2014) Arik Kershenbaum et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Comparative primate genomics: emerging patterns of genome content and dynamics

(2014) Jeffrey Rogers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The origin of human multi-modal communication

(2014) S. C. Levinson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Acoustic Communication and Sound Degradation: How Do the Individual Signatures of Male and Female Zebra Finch Calls Transmit over Distance?

(2014) Solveig C. Mouterde et al.   PLoS One

Pant hoot chorusing and social bonds in male chimpanzees

(2013) Pawel Fedurek et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The acoustic structure of chimpanzee pant-hooting facilitates chorusing

(2013) Pawel Fedurek et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A new heuristic for capturing the complexity of multimodal signals

(2013) Carolynn L. Smith et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Male–female socio-spatial relationships and reproduction in wild chimpanzees

(2013) Kevin E. Langergraber et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Coupled Oscillator Dynamics of Vocal Turn-Taking in Monkeys

(2013) Daniel Y. Takahashi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Western Gorilla Vocal Repertoire and Contextual Use of Vocalizations

(2013) Roberta Salmi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Possible Role of Mother-Daughter Vocal Interactions on the Development of Species-Specific Song in Gibbons

(2013) Hiroki Koda et al.   PLoS One

Age- and sex-dependent contact call usage in Japanese macaques

(2013) Alban Lemasson et al.   PRIMATES

Social grooming among wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Wamba in the Luo Scientific Reserve, DR Congo, with special reference to the formation of grooming gatherings

(2013) Tetsuya Sakamaki   PRIMATES

Graded or discrete? A quantitative analysis of Campbell's monkey alarm calls

(2012) Sumir Keenan et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female philopatry and its social benefits among Bornean orangutans

(2012) Maria A. van Noordwijk et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Convergence and divergence in Diana monkey vocalizations

(2012) A. Candiotti et al.   Biology Letters

Segmental concatenation of individual signatures and context cues in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) close calls

(2012) David AWAM Jansen et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

(2012) Kay Prüfer et al.   NATURE

Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

(2012) T. M. Freeberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

(2012) K. A. Pollard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Derived vocalizations of geladas (Theropithecus gelada) and the evolution of vocal complexity in primates

(2012) M. L. Gustison et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological and social factors affect the occurrence and outcomes of intergroup encounters in chimpanzees

(2011) Michael L. Wilson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dawn chorusing in guereza colobus monkeys

(2011) Anne Marijke Schel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals

(2011) Z. Clay et al.   Biology Letters

Social learning of vocal structure in a nonhuman primate?

(2011) Alban Lemasson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Incomplete lineage sorting patterns among human, chimpanzee, and orangutan suggest recent orangutan speciation and widespread selection

(2011) A. Hobolth et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Acoustic variability and social significance of calls in female Campbell’s monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli campbelli)

(2011) A. Lemasson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Sex-Biased Dispersal and Volcanic Activities Shaped Phylogeographic Patterns of Extant Orangutans (genus: Pongo)

(2011) Alexander Nater et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bonobos Extract Meaning from Call Sequences

(2011) Zanna Clay et al.   PLoS One

Youngsters do not pay attention to conversational rules: is this so for nonhuman primates?

(2011) A. Lemasson et al.   Scientific Reports

Sex differences in the vocal repertoire of adult red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus): a multi-level acoustic analysis

(2010) Hélène Bouchet et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Vocal greeting behaviour in wild chimpanzee females

(2010) Marion N.C. Laporte et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Attention to elders' voice in non-human primates

(2010) A. Lemasson et al.   Biology Letters

Lethal intergroup aggression leads to territorial expansion in wild chimpanzees

(2010) John C. Mitani et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social Factors Influence the Acoustic Variability in the Long-distance Calls of Male Chimpanzees

(2010) John C. Mitani et al.   ETHOLOGY

Dispersal Patterns of Orang-utans (Pongo spp.) in a Bornean Peat-swamp Forest

(2010) Helen Celia Morrogh-Bernard et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Speed of call delivery is related to context and caller identity in Campbell’s monkey males

(2010) Alban Lemasson et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Effects of Pleistocene glaciations and rivers on the population structure of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

(2010) N. Arora et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Food-associated calling sequences in bonobos

(2009) Zanna Clay et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Male chimpanzees form enduring and equitable social bonds

(2009) John C. Mitani   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Calculated reciprocity after all: computation behind token transfers in orang-utans

(2009) V Dufour et al.   Biology Letters

What Does Mutual Grooming Tell Us About Why Chimpanzees Groom?

(2009) Pawel Fedurek et al.   ETHOLOGY

Token transfers among great apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Pan troglodytes): Species differences, gestural requests, and reciprocal exchange.

(2009) Marie Pelé et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation

(2009) T. Stivers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contact calls of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): influence of age of caller on antiphonal calling and other vocal responses

(2008) H.-C. Chen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Sociality of the dispersing sex: the nature of social bonds in West African female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes

(2008) Julia Lehmann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Association patterns among wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) reflect sex differences in cooperation

(2008) Ian C. Gilby et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Male blue monkeys alarm call in response to danger experienced by others

(2008) S. Papworth et al.   Biology Letters

Sexual Differences in Chimpanzee Sociality

(2008) Julia Lehmann et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Female-Female Competition in Bornean Orangutans

(2008) Cheryl Knott et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY