title: Interactions between cultural, social and biological explanations for language evolution.
abstract: This is a reply to commentaries on a target article in this volume reviewing models for the cultural evolution of language. Many commentaries amplify positions taken in this article but they also cover novel issues in social evolution and biological evolution, which are briefly addressed here.
authors: ICREA, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Dr. Aiguadar 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. steels@arti.vub.ac.be
authors: Luc
authors: L
authors: Steels
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008962:Models, Theoretical