Speech, stone tool-making and the evolution of language

The earliest long-distance obsidian transport: Evidence from the ∼200 ka Middle Stone Age Sibilo School Road Site, Baringo, Kenya

(2017) Nick Blegen   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready

(2016) W. T. Fitch et al.   Science Advances

Language Did Not Spring Forth 100,000 Years Ago

(2015) Philip Lieberman   PLOS BIOLOGY

Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen

(2014) Polly W. Wiessner   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How Could Language Have Evolved?

(2014) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

From action to language: comparative perspectives on primate tool use, gesture and the evolution of human language

(2011) J. Steele et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolution

(2011) D. Stout et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Evolution of Language

(2009) Michael C. Corballis   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Shared neural correlates for language and tool use in Brocaʼs area

(2009) Satomi Higuchi et al.   NEUROREPORT