McComb, Karen and Semple, Stuart (2005) Co-evolution of vocal communication and sociality in primates. Biology Letters, 1 (4). pp. 381-385. ISSN 1744-9561

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Abstract

Understanding the rules that link communi- cation and social behaviour is an essential pre- requisite for discerning how a communication system as complex as human language might have evolved. The comparative method offers a powerful tool for investigating the nature of these rules, since it provides a means to examine relationships between changes in communi - cation abilities and changes in key aspects of social behaviour over evolutionary time. Here we present empirical evidence from phylogeneti- cally controlled analyses indicating that evol- uti onar y i ncreases i n the si ze of t he vocal repertoire among non-human primate species were associated with increases in both group size and time spent grooming (our measure of extent of social bonding).

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Karen McComb
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 15:52
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2019 13:29
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/14831

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