The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of app
1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. Part 1. General perspectives and issues on language origins; 4. Historical, Darwinian, and current perspectives on the origin(s) of language (by Cohen, Henri); 5. The origin of language as seen by eighteenth-century philos