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This project examines turn-taking in communication among humans and primates to understand its evolutionary significance. It employs behavioral observations and eye-tracking to compare turn-taking abilities across species, aiming to uncover shared traits and social influences.
Language — the most distinctive human trait — remains a ‘mystery’1 or even a ‘problem’2 for evolutionary theory.
It is underpinned by cooperative turn-taking3, which has been implicated with highly sophisticated cognitive skills such as mindreading4.
Some have claimed that this turn-taking system is uniquely human5,6, but others argue that it provides the evolutionary ‘missing link’ between animal and human communication7.
This debate has been constrained by a lack of comparative data, methodolo…
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