Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. About the contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Article
7. Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language 13
8. Research Studies
9. Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants? 33
10. Non-human primates
11. A mother gorilla’s variable use of touch to guide her infant 55
12. Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans 73
13. Handedness for manual gestures in great apes 93
14. Mandrill visual gestures 113
15. Gesture use in consortship 129
16. New trends and debates
17. A call for conformity 147
18. Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing 165
19. Pointing 181
20. Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing 199
21. Article
22. Hands and faces 223
23. Where next? 241
24. Index 253