Self domestication and the evolution of language

Culture shapes the evolution of cognition

(2016) Bill Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The social-pragmatic theory of word learning

(2015) Michael Tomasello   Pragmatics

Iterated learning and the evolution of language

(2014) Simon Kirby et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The "Domestication Syndrome" in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics

(2014) A. S. Wilkins et al.   GENETICS

Mate competition, testosterone and intersexual relationships in bonobos, Pan paniscus

(2012) Martin Surbeck et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression

(2012) Brian Hare et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Changes in ultra-structures and electrophysiological properties in HVC of untutored and deafened Bengalese finches relation to normally reared birds: Implications for song learning

(2012) Zhe Peng et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN

Extension of cortical synaptic development distinguishes humans from chimpanzees and macaques

(2012) X. Liu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Social correlates of variation in urinary cortisol in wild male bonobos (Pan paniscus)

(2012) Martin Surbeck et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Decreased Fecal Corticosterone Levels Due to Domestication: A Comparison Between the White-Backed Munia (Lonchura striata) and Its Domesticated Strain, the Bengalese Finch (Lonchura striatavar.domestica) With a Suggestion for Complex Song Evolution

(2012) Kenta Suzuki et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Dogs (Canis familiaris), but Not Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Understand Imperative Pointing

(2012) Katharina C. Kirchhofer et al.   PLoS One

Kinship Categories Across Languages Reflect General Communicative Principles

(2012) C. Kemp et al.   SCIENCE

Social Factors in Song Learning: A Review of Estrildid Finch Research

(2012) Masayo F. Soma   ORNITHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Human neoteny revisited: The case of synaptic plasticity

(2011) Enric Bufill et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Are great apes tested with an abject object-choice task?

(2011) Nicholas J. Mulcahy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The gestural repertoire of the wild chimpanzee

(2011) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Understanding of human communicative motives in domestic dogs

(2011) Helene Pettersson et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

The origins of vocal learning: New sounds, new circuits, new cells

(2011) Fernando Nottebohm et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

On the hunt for the gene of perspective taking: pitfalls in methodology

(2011) Ádám Miklósi et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Genetics of behavior in the silver fox

(2011) Anna V. Kukekova et al.   MAMMALIAN GENOME

Expression patterns of mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors in Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) brain suggest a relationship between stress hormones and song-system development

(2011) K. Suzuki et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong

(2011) Robert C. Berwick et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The use of human-given cues by domestic horses, Equus caballus, during an object choice task

(2010) Leanne Proops et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) use gestures to identify the location of hidden food

(2010) Jan K. Tornick et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Vocal learning in Grey parrots: A brief review of perception, production, and cross-species comparisons

(2010) Irene M. Pepperberg   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Bonobos voluntarily share their own food with others

(2010) Brian Hare et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Song Learning in the Anna Hummingbird (Calypte anna)

(2010) Luis F. Baptista et al.   ETHOLOGY

Song Learning in Wild and Domesticated Strains of White-Rumped Munia,Lonchura striata, Compared by Cross-Fostering Procedures: Domestication Increases Song Variability by Decreasing Strain-Specific Bias

(2010) Miki Takahasi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Patterns of sexual size dimorphism in cattle breeds support Rensch’s rule

(2010) Jakub Polák et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

A role for relaxed selection in the evolution of the language capacity

(2010) T. W. Deacon   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Language evolution in the laboratory

(2010) Thomas C. Scott-Phillips et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

“Lucy” redux: A review of research on Australopithecus afarensis

(2009) William H. Kimbel et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Dingoes (Canis dingo) can use human social cues to locate hidden food

(2009) Bradley P. Smith et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Animal evolution during domestication: the domesticated fox as a model

(2009) Lyudmila Trut et al.   BIOESSAYS

Sexual size dimorphism in domestic goats, sheep, and their wild relatives

(2009) JAKUB POLÁK et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

What did domestication do to dogs? A new account of dogs' sensitivity to human actions

(2009) Monique A. R. Udell et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Production, usage, and comprehension in animal vocalizations

(2009) Robert M. Seyfarth et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Reduced anti-predator responses in multi-generational hybrids of farmed and wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)

(2009) Aimee Lee S. Houde et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

The performance of bonobos (Pan paniscus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in two versions of an object-choice task.

(2009) Nicholas J. Mulcahy et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The possibility of impossible cultures

(2009) Marc D. Hauser   NATURE

Transcriptional neoteny in the human brain

(2009) M. Somel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Differential Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs, Wolves, and Human Infants

(2009) J. Topal et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of hominin ontogenies

(2009) Christoph P.E. Zollikofer et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Ontogeny's impacts on human–dog communication

(2008) Clive D.L. Wynne et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Wolves outperform dogs in following human social cues

(2008) Monique A.R. Udell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Use of experimenter-given cues by African gray parrots (Psittacus erithacus)

(2008) Nicolas Giret et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Comprehension of human pointing gestures in young human-reared wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris)

(2008) Zsófia Virányi et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

A longitudinal study of antipredator behaviour in four successive generations of two populations of captive red junglefowl

(2008) Jennie Håkansson et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Fearfulness in red junglefowl and domesticated White Leghorn chickens

(2008) Magnus Campler et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution

(2008) K. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution

(2008) A. Mesoudi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

(2008) S. Kirby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human oestrus

(2008) S. W Gangestad et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Infants' Perseverative Search Errors Are Induced by Pragmatic Misinterpretation

(2008) J. Topal et al.   SCIENCE

Strong postcranial size dimorphism inAustralopithecus afarensis: Results from two new resampling methods for multivariate data sets with missing data

(2007) Adam D. Gordon et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

The early ontogeny of human–dog communication

(2007) Julia Riedel et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Song learning as an indicator mechanism: Modelling the developmental stress hypothesis

(2007) Graham R.S. Ritchie et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY