The evolutionary emergence of language: evidence and inference

Introduction: evidence and inference in the study of language evolution / Rudolf Botha and Martin Everaert

What is special about the human language faculty and how did it get that way? / Stephen R. Anderson

Language has evolved to depend on multiple-cue integration / Morten H. Christiansen

Homesign as a way-station between co-speech gesture and sign language: the evolution of segmentation and sequencing / Ann Senghas, Asli Özyürek, and Susan Goldin-Meadow

Kin selection, pedagogy, and linguistic complexity: whence protolanguage? / Maggie Tallerman

Neanderthal linguistic abilities: an alternative view / Katharine MacDonald and Wil Roebroeks

The archaeology of number concept and its implications for the evolution of language / Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge, and Karenleigh A. Overmann

The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual domains / Peter Gärdenfors

Speech-gesture links in the ontogeny and phylogeny of gestural communication /

Jacques Vauclair and Hélène Cochet

Exploring the gaps between primate calls and human language / Alban Lemasson, Karim Ouattara, and Klaus Zuberbühler

Talking about the apes, birds, bees, and other living creatures: language evolution in light of comparative animal behaviour / Kathleen R. Gibson

FoxP2 and deep homology in the evolution of birdsong and human language / Alan Langus, Jana Petri, Marina Nespor, and Constance Scharff

Genetics, evolution, and the innateness of language / Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann.