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1. Introduction: The evolution of language ; PART 1: INSIGHTS FROM COMPARATIVE ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR ; 2. Introduction to Part 1: Insights from comparative animal behaviour ; 3. Language or Protolanguage? A review of the ape language literature ; 4. Primate Social Cognition as a Precursor to Language ; 5. Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Vocal Flexibility ; 6. Gesture as the Most Flexible Modality of Primate Communication ; 7. Have we Underestimated Great Ape Vocal Capacities? ; 8. Bird Song and Language ; 9. Vocal Communication and Cognition in Cetaceans ; 10. Evolution of Communication and Language: Insights from parrots and songbirds ; 11. Are Other Animals as Smart as Great Apes? Do Others Provide Better Models for the Evolution of Speech or Language? ; PART 2: THE BIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION: ANATOMY, GENETICS, AND NEUROLOGY ; 12. Introduction to Part 2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, genetics, and neurology ; 13. Innateness and Human Language: A biological perspective ; 14. Evolutionary Biological Foundations of the Origin of Language: The co-evolution of language and brain ; 15. Genetic Influences on Languaeg Evolution: An evaluation of the evidence ; 16. Not the Neocortex Alone: Other brain structures also contribute to speech and language ; 17. The Mimetic Origins of Language ; 18. Evolution of Behavioural and Brain Asymmetries in Primates ; 19. Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language Through Comparative Neuroanatomy ; 20. Mirror Systems: Evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language ; 21. Cognitive Prerequisites for the Evolution of Indirect Speech ; 22. The Anatomical and Physiological Basis of Human Speech production: Adaptations and exaptations ; PART 3: THE PRE-HISTORY OF LANGUAGE: WHEN AND WHY DID LANGUAGE EVOLVE? ; 23. Introduction to Part 3: The pre-history of Language: When and why did language evolve? ; 24. Molecular Perspectives on Human Evolution ; 25. The Fossil Record: Evidence for speech in early hominins ; 26. The Genus Homo and the Origins of 'Humanness' ; 27. The Palaeolithic Record ; 28. Musicality and Language ; 29. Linguistic Implications of the Earliest Personal Ornaments ; 30. Inferring Modern Language From Ancient Objects ; 31. Natural Selection-itis ; 32. The Role of Honimim Mothers and Infants in Prelinguistic Evolution ; 33. Infant-directed Speech and Language Evolution ; 34. Displays of Vocal and Verbal Complexity: A fitness account of language, situated in development ; 35. Tool-dependent Foraging Strategies and the Origin of Language ; 36. Gossip and the Social Origins of Langauge ; 37. Social Conditions for teh Evolutionary Emergence of Language ; PART 4: LAUNCHING LANGUAGE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LINGUISTIC SPECIES ; 38. Introduction to Part 4: Launching Language: The development of a linguistic species ; 39. The Role of Evolution in Shaping the Human Language Faculty ; 40. The Origins of Meaning ; 41. The Origins of Language in Manual Gestures ; 42. From Sensorimotor Categories and Pantomime to Grounded Symbols and Propositions ; 43. The Symbol Concept ; 44. Words Came First: Adaptations for word-learning ; 45. The Emergence of Phonetic Form ; 46. The Evolution of Phonology ; 47. The Evolution of Morphology ; 48. What is Syntax? ; 49. The Origins of Syntactic Language ; 50. The Evolutionary Relevance of More and Less Complex Forms of Language ; 51. Protolanguage ; 52. The Emergence of Language, From a Biolinguistic Point of View ; PART 5: LANGUAGE CHANGE, CREATION, AND TRANSMISSION ; 53. Introduction to Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission ; 54. Grammaticalization Theory as a Tool for Reconstructing Language Evolution ; 55. Domain-general Processes as the Basis for Grammar ; 56. Pidgins, Creoles, and the Creation of Language ; 57. What Modern-day Gesture can tell us About Language Evolution ; 58. Monogenesis or Polygenesis: A single ancestral language for all humanity? ; 59. Prehistoric Population Contact and Language Change ; 60. Why Formal Models are Useful for Evolutionary Linguists ; 61. Language is an Adaptive System: The role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure ; 62. Robotics and Embodied Agents Modelling of the Evolution of Language ; 63. Self-organization and Language Evolution ; 64. Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition ; 65. A Solution of the Logical Problem of Language Evolution: Language as an adaptation to the human brain