Program Tuesday 12. February
09.15-09.30: Introduction: Darwin's influence on our understanding of communication in animals and man
Nils Chr. Stenseth
CEES
09.30-10.15: Flaws in language as clues to its prehistory
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
10.15-11.00: Our gesturing cousins: One approach to the evolution of language
Simone Pika
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, England
11.15-12.00: Levels of categorization in animals and humans
Ulrike Aust
Department for Neurobiology and Cognition Research, University of Vienna, Austria
12.00-13.15: Break
13.15-14.00: I know what you see: Visual perspective taking in apes and dogs
Juliane Bräuer
Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
14.15-15.00: Language Evolution: the Comparative Approach and Darwin's Contribution
Tecumseh Fitch
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Scotland
15.00-15.15: Information on the 2009 Charles Darwin celebration
Nils Chr. Stenseth
CEES