Taking turns: bridging the gap between human and animal communication.
Proc Biol Sci
; 285(1880)2018 06 13.
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ABSTRACT
Language, humans' most distinctive trait, still remains a 'mystery' for evolutionary theory. It is underpinned by a universal infrastructure-cooperative turn-taking-which has been suggested as an ancient mechanism bridging the existing gap between the articulate human species and their inarticulate primate cousins. However, we know remarkably little about turn-taking systems of non-human animals, and methodological confounds have often prevented meaningful cross-species comparisons. Thus, the extent to which cooperative turn-taking is uniquely human or represents a homologous and/or analogous trait is currently unknown. The present paper draws attention to this promising research avenue by providing an overview of the state of the art of turn-taking in four animal taxa-birds, mammals, insects and anurans. It concludes with a new comparative framework to spur more research into this research domain and to test which elements of the human turn-taking system are shared across species and taxa.
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Comunicação Animal
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Evolução Biológica
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Idioma
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Animals
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En
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Proc Biol Sci
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article
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Alemanha