Volume 32, Issue 6

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December 2017

Special Issue: The Evolution of Language (first 8 articles)

Issue Editors:

Kim Sterelny,
Simon Greenhill

28 articles in this issue

Where did language come from? Connecting sign, song, and speech in hominin evolution
Anton Killin
OriginalPaper 30 November 2017 Pages: 759 - 778
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The Evolution of Language
How language couldn’t have evolved: a critical examination of Berwick and Chomsky’s theory of language evolution
Ronald J. Planer
OriginalPaper 29 November 2017 Pages: 779 - 796
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The Evolution of Language
Social cognition, Stag Hunts, and the evolution of language
Richard Moore
OriginalPaper 22 October 2017 Pages: 797 - 818
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The Evolution of Language
From code to speaker meaning
Kim Sterelny
OriginalPaper 19 October 2017 Pages: 819 - 838
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The Evolution of Language
Collective narratives, false memories, and the origins of autobiographical memory
Eva Jablonka
OriginalPaper 11 October 2017 Pages: 839 - 853
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The Evolution of Language
Curiously the same: swapping tools between linguistics and evolutionary biology
Lindell Bromham
OriginalPaper 20 September 2017 Pages: 855 - 886
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The Evolution of Language
The evolution of linguistic rules
Matthew Spike
OriginalPaper 26 February 2018 Pages: 887 - 904
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The Evolution of Language
Did language evolve in multilingual settings?
Nicholas Evans
OriginalPaper 20 February 2018 Pages: 905 - 933
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The Evolution of Language
Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution
Bengt Autzen
OriginalPaper Open access 11 September 2017 Pages: 935 - 950
By genes alone: a model selectionist argument for genetical explanations of cooperation in non-human organisms
Armin W. Schulz
OriginalPaper 22 July 2017 Pages: 951 - 967
In defence of biodiversity
Joanna Burch-Brown
Alfred Archer
Original Paper Open access 19 September 2017 Pages: 969 - 997
On mechanistic reasoning in unexpected places: the case of population genetics
Lucas J. Matthews
OriginalPaper 01 September 2017 Pages: 999 - 1018
Conceptualizing communities as natural entities: a philosophical argument with basic and applied implications
David A. Steen
Kyle Barrett
Craig Guyer
OriginalPaper 27 September 2017 Pages: 1019 - 1034
Moving beyond dichotomies: Liao, S. Matthew (ed.), Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality, Oxford University Press, 2016
Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera
Review Essay 16 September 2017 Pages: 1035 - 1046
Hardwiring: innateness in the age of the brain
Giordana Grossi
OriginalPaper 16 September 2017 Pages: 1047 - 1082
Biodiversity Realism: Preserving the tree of life
Christopher Hunter Lean
OriginalPaper 20 September 2017 Pages: 1083 - 1103
Why one model is never enough: a defense of explanatory holism
Eric Hochstein
OriginalPaper 22 September 2017 Pages: 1105 - 1125
Information, influence, and the causal-explanatory role of content in understanding receiver responses
David Kalkman
OriginalPaper 05 October 2017 Pages: 1127 - 1150
Animal morality: What is the debate about?
Simon Fitzpatrick
OriginalPaper 13 October 2017 Pages: 1151 - 1183
What are definitions of life good for? Transdisciplinary and other definitions in astrobiology
Tarja Knuuttila
Andrea Loettgers
OriginalPaper Open access 01 November 2017 Pages: 1185 - 1203
Indeterminism in the brain
Bryce Gessell
OriginalPaper 27 October 2017 Pages: 1205 - 1223
The coupling of taxonomy and function in microbiomes
S. Andrew Inkpen
Gavin M. Douglas
Morgan G. I. Langille
OriginalPaper 01 November 2017 Pages: 1225 - 1243
Complexity and technological evolution: What everybody knows?
Krist Vaesen
Wybo Houkes
OriginalPaper Open access 22 November 2017 Pages: 1245 - 1268
The octopus and the unity of consciousness
Sidney Carls-Diamante
OriginalPaper 10 November 2017 Pages: 1269 - 1287
Mating dances and the evolution of language: What’s the next step?
Cameron Buckner
Keyao Yang
OriginalPaper 23 November 2017 Pages: 1289 - 1316
The manipulability of what? The history of G-protein coupled receptors
Ann-Sophie Barwich
Karim Bschir
OriginalPaper 19 December 2017 Pages: 1317 - 1339
Forces, friction and fractionation: Denis Walsh’s Organisms, agency, and evolution
Andrew Buskell
Adrian Currie
Review Essay Open access 27 July 2017 Pages: 1341 - 1353
Mental evolution: a review of Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Charles A. Rathkopf
Review Essay 10 August 2017 Pages: 1355 - 1368

Volume 32, Issue 6

Where did language come from? Connecting sign, song, and speech in hominin evolution

How language couldn’t have evolved: a critical examination of Berwick and Chomsky’s theory of language evolution

Social cognition, Stag Hunts, and the evolution of language

From code to speaker meaning

Collective narratives, false memories, and the origins of autobiographical memory

Curiously the same: swapping tools between linguistics and evolutionary biology

The evolution of linguistic rules

Did language evolve in multilingual settings?

Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution

By genes alone: a model selectionist argument for genetical explanations of cooperation in non-human organisms

In defence of biodiversity

On mechanistic reasoning in unexpected places: the case of population genetics

Conceptualizing communities as natural entities: a philosophical argument with basic and applied implications

Moving beyond dichotomies: Liao, S. Matthew (ed.), Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality, Oxford University Press, 2016

Hardwiring: innateness in the age of the brain

Biodiversity Realism: Preserving the tree of life

Why one model is never enough: a defense of explanatory holism

Information, influence, and the causal-explanatory role of content in understanding receiver responses

Animal morality: What is the debate about?

What are definitions of life good for? Transdisciplinary and other definitions in astrobiology

Indeterminism in the brain

The coupling of taxonomy and function in microbiomes

Complexity and technological evolution: What everybody knows?

The octopus and the unity of consciousness

Mating dances and the evolution of language: What’s the next step?

The manipulability of what? The history of G-protein coupled receptors

Forces, friction and fractionation: Denis Walsh’s Organisms, agency, and evolution

Mental evolution: a review of Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back

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