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Conversations in the forest: from vocal to gestural turn-taking in wildcommon marmosets (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2025)
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This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. For centuries, researchers have studied language evolution. Recently, the "Interaction Engine” hypothesis suggested that language arose from our unique social interaction abilities, including face-to-face interaction and cooperative turn-taking. Turn-taking has been suggested to be an ancient mechanism found across the primate order. Although turn-taking studies have been biased towards...