Evolution of Communicative Flexibility: Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication

Bys: Kurt Hammerschmidt, Ronald Schusterman, D. Kimbrough Oller, et al.

Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.

The evolutionary roots of human communication are difficult to trace, but recent comparative research suggests that the first key step in that evolutionary history may have been the establishment of basic communicative flexibility--the ability to vocalize freely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262151219
• ISBN13: 9780262151214
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher