The Evolution of Communication

by Marc Hauser

Book Overview

The current wave of research activity on the evolution of cognition is rooted, both historically and intellectually, in the question of how human language evolved. But scientific progress on this question has been stalled in a debate about whether the question can even be broached. Breaking this deadlock, The Evolution of Communication addresses the problems of how communication systems, including language, have been designed over the course of evolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262082500
• ISBN13: 9780262082501
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 760 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

EOC -- Brings Animal Cognition to the forefront.

The Evolution of Communication gives a distintive opinion of evolutionary psychology, animal cognition, and cognitive neuroscience. Easy to read and understand, many of the hypotheses and comments of Marc Hauser are now being applied to larger academic issues, such as the "concept acquisition" problem in philosophy. The strengths of this book lie in its overarching predictions, and the supplemental and thorough examples.