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The social and cognitive bases of language evolution...

• Andy Lock (Massey University): A post-Darwinian account of symbol system construction.

• Peter Harder (University of Copenhagen): The Platonic projection and the social turn in cognitive linguistics - or: How do concepts escape from the mind into the sociocultural environment?

• Hugo Mercier (Institut Jean Nicod - CNRS ENS EHESS): A solution to the enigma of pointing in non human primates .

• Anna Kinsella (University of Edinburgh): Towards an Evolutionarily Plausible Theory of Language.

• Andrew Smith and Mónica Tamariz (University of Edinburgh): Exploring the systematicity and learnability of language through artificial language learning.

• Jill Bowie (University of Reading): The evolution of linguistic discourse.

• Stefan Hoefler (University of Edinburgh): On the common origins of symbols and grammar.

• Chris Sinha (University of Portsmouth) and Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology): Theme session discussion.