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To examine how tool use, language emergence, and cognitive faculties co-evolved and interact across neurological, developmental, and archaeological domains.

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Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution.

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To examine how tool use, language emergence, and cognitive faculties co-evolved and interact across neurological, developmental, and archaeological domains.
Synthesizes comparative behavioral studies of tool use and transmission across wild and captive non-human primates.
Integrates neurobiological investigations of motor and linguistic control with archaeological analyses of Paleolithic stone tool industries.
Identifies shared neural control networks governing both manual object manipulation and vocal or gestural language systems.
Demonstrates that the social transmission of tool technologies relies on the same evolutionary expansions in planning and information processing that underpin propositional language.

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Comparative evolutionary review uncovers shared neurological and developmental substrates for tool use and language in primates, indicating coordinated cognitive evolution.

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Latour et al. (1994) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a102dc32badbc352aff7a51 https://doi.org/10.2307/2804508

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Comparative evolutionary review uncovers shared neurological and developmental substrates for tool use and language in primates, indicating coordinated cognitive evolution.

Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution.

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