Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution.

Abstract

Preface Prologue: General introduction: Animal minds, human minds Kathleen Gibson A history of speculation on the relation between tools and language Gordon Hewes Part I. Word, Sign and Gesture: General introduction: Relations between visual-gestural and vocal-auditory modalities of communication Tim Ingold 1. Human gesture Adam Kendon 2. When does gesture become language? Susan Goldwin-Meadow 3. The emergence of language Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Duane Rumbaugh 4. A comparative approach to language parallels Charles Snowdon Part II. Technological Skills and Associated Social Behaviors of the Non-Human Primates: Introduction: Generative interplay between technical capacities, social relations, imitation and cognition Kathleen Gibson 5. Capuchin monkeys Elisabetta Visalberghi 6. The intelligent use of tools William McGrew 7. Aspects of transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees Christophe Boesch Part III. Connecting Up The Brain: Introduction: Overlapping neural control of language, gesture and tool use Kathleen Gibson 8. Disorders of language and tool use Daniel Kempler 9. Sex differences in visuospatial skills Dean Falk 10. The unitary hypothesis William H. Calvin 11. Tool use, language and social behaviour in relationship to information processing capacities Kathleen Gibson Part IV. Perspectives on Development: Introduction: Beyond neotony and recapitulation Kathleen Gibson 12. Human language development and object manipulation Andrew Lock 13. Comparative cognitive development Jonas Langer 14. Higher intelligence, propositional language and culture as adaptations for planning Sue Parker and Constance Milbrath Part V. Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives: Introduction: Tools, techniques and technology Tim Ingold 15. Early stone industries and inferences regarding language and cognition Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick 16. Tools and language in human evolution Iain Davidson and William Noble 17. Layers of thinking in tool behaviour Thomas Wynn 18. The complementation theory of language and tool use Peter Reynolds 19. Tool-use, sociality and intelligence Tim Ingold Epilogue: Technology, language, intelligence Tim Ingold Index.