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Presents a comprehensive report of conference research and discussion papers on the origin of language and speech. Sections of interest to psychologists are those on perceptual and cognitive substrates, artificial intelligence, behavioral parallels and continuities, gestural origin theories, competency of apes, perception and production of speech, neural parallels and continuities, and language and the human brain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)