The comparative study of communicative behaviour in non-human animals, especially primates, has yielded crucial insights into the evolution of human language. This research, mostly focused on the spe...

The concept of flexibility in communication is central to reconstructing the evolutionary history of language, and grappling with “contextual flexibility” in particular is pivotal to address implicat...

The concepts of social learning and exploration have been central to debates in comparative cognition research. While their roles in the origins of human cumulative culture on the one hand and creativ...