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Hardcover. Condizione: Wie neu. 365 p., 33 colour ill., 22 b/w ill., 10 b/w tables. The copy is in mint condition and as good as new. - Summary: This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys and apes, the description of combinatory structures and their social and communicative value, and the exploration of the cognitive environment in which language may have emerged from nonhuman primate vocal or gestural communication. - Contents - Editors: Louis-Jean Boë, Joël Fagot, Pascal Perrier, Jean-Luc Schwartz Introduction to "Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates" - Caralyn Kemp, Arnaud Rey, Thierry Legou, Louis-Jean Boë, Frédéric Berthommier, Yannick Becker and Joël Fagot Vocal Repertoire of Captive Guinea Baboons (Papio papio) - Louis-Jean Boë, Thomas R. Sawallis, Jöel Fagot and Frédéric Berthommier - What's up with Wahoo? Exploring Baboon Vocalizations with Speech Science Techniques - Adriano R. Lameira Origins of Human Consonants and Vowels: Articulatory Continuities with Great Apes - Frédéric Berthommier, Louis-Jean Boë, Adrien Meguerditchian, Thomas R. Sawallis and Guillaume Captier Comparative Anatomy of the Baboon and Human Vocal Tracts: Renewal of Methods, Data, and Hypotheses - Veena Kumar and Kristina Simonyan Evolution of the Laryngeal Motor Cortex for Speech Production - William D. Hopkins - Motor and Communicative Correlates of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus (Broca's Area) in Chimpanzees - Camille Coye, Simon Townsend and Alban Lemasson From Animal Communication to Linguistics and Back: Insight from Combinatorial Abilities in Monkeys and Birds - Klaus Zuberbühler - Primate Roots of Speech and Language - Katja Liebal - What Gestures of Nonhuman Primates Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Language Evolution - W Tecumseh Fitch - Dendrophilia and the Evolution of Syntax - Joël Fagot, Raphaëlle Malassis, Tiphaine Medam and Marie Montant Comparing Human and Nonhuman Animal Performance on Domain-General Functions: Towards a Multiple Bottleneck Scenario of Language Evolution. ISBN 9783631737262 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630.

The islands of the Pacific are renowned for the high levels of endemism of, and threats to, their unique faunas and floras. Espiritu Santo, affectionately known simply as Santo, is an island of superlatives: the largest and highest in Vanuatu, Santo is an extraordinary geographical and cultural microcosm, combining reefs, caves, mountains, satellite islands, and a history of human habitation going back 3,000 years. In the spirit of famous voyages of discovery of the past, the Santo 2006 expedition brought together over 150 scientists, volunteers and students originating from 25 countries. With contributions by more than 100 authors, th book is a lavishly illustrated homage to the biodiversity of this "planet-island". 569 pp., col. ill., br. 4.