Developments in Primate Gesture Research

1. Acknowledgements; 2. About the contributors; 3. Introduction: Developments in primate gesture research (by Pika, Simone); 4. Article; 5. Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language (by Hooff, Jan A.R.A.M. van); 6. Research Studies; 7. Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants? (by Marentette, Paula); 8. Non-human primates; 9. A mother gorilla's variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action (by Perlman, Marcus); 10. Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy? (by Tempelmann, Sebastian); 11. Handedness for manual gestures in great apes: A meta-analysis (by Hopkins, William D.); 12. Mandrill visual gestures: A round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys (by Laidre, Mark E.); 13. Gesture use in consortship: Wild chimpanzees' use of gesture for an 'evolutionarily urgent' purpose (by Hobaiter, Catherine); 14. New trends and debates; 15. A call for conformity: Gesture studies in human and non-human primates (by Scott, Nicole M.); 16. Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing (by Racine, Timothy P.); 17. Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality (by Leavens, David A.); 18. Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing: A new look on chimpanzee signalling (by Wilkinson, Ray); 19. Article; 20. Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication (by Wilcox, Sherman); 21. Where next? (by Liebal, Katja); 22. Index