title: Speech as a breakthrough signaling resource in the cognitive evolution of biological complex adaptive systems.
abstract: In self-adapting dynamical systems, a significant improvement in the signaling flow among agents constitutes one of the most powerful triggering events for the emergence of new complex behaviors. Ackermann and colleagues' comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the brain structures involved in acoustic communication provides further evidence of the essential role which speech, as a breakthrough signaling resource, has played in the evolutionary development of human cognition viewed from the standpoint of complex adaptive system analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery-Brain & Spine Center / InvisionHealth,Buffalo,NY 14221.tobiasmattei@yahoo.comhttp://www.invisionhealth.com/providers/neurosurgery/tobias-mattei-md/
authors.forename: Tobias A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Mattei
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*