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Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

Scott-Phillips, T. C., & Kirby, S. (in press). Information, influence, and inference in the evolution of language. In U. Stegmann (Ed.), Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. Cambridge: CUP. (Includes response to commentaries.)

Scott-Phillips, T. C., Blythe, R. A., Gardner, A., & West, S. A. (2012). How do communication systems emerge? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 279, 1943-1949.

Scott-Phillips, T. C., Dickins, T. E., & West, S. A. (2011). Evolutionary theory and the ultimate/proximate distinction in the human behavioural sciences. Perspectives on Psychological Science 6(1), 38-47.
Media commentary: ICCI, Rob Kurzban's Evolutionary Psychology blog

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2010). The evolution of relevance. Cognitive Science 34(4), 583-601.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2010). Evolutionary psychology and the origins of language. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 8(4), 289-307.
Media commentary: Babel's Dawn, Babel's Dawn (again)

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2010). The evolution of communication: Humans may be exceptional. Interaction Studies 11(1), 78-99.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2010). Animal communication: Insights from linguistic pragmatics. Animal Behaviour 79(1), e1-e4.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2010). Evolutionarily stable communication and pragmatics. In A. Benz, et al. (Eds.), Language, Games and Evolution (pp.117-133). Berlin: Springer.

Scott-Phillips, T. C., & Kirby, S. (2010). Language evolution in the laboratory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(9), 411-417.
Media commentary: Replicated Typo

Scott-Phillips, T. C., Kirby, S. & Ritchie, G. R. S. (2009). Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication. Cognition 113(2), 226-233.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2009). Pragmatics of animal communication. Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia, 40-41.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2009). Social cognition. Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia, 473-474.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2008). Defining biological communication. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21(2), 387-395.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2007). The social evolution of language, and the language of social evolution. Evolutionary Psychology 5(4), 740-753.

Edited collection

Scott-Phillips, T. C., Tamariz, M., Cartmill, E., & Hurford, J. R. (Eds.) (2012). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Singapore: World Scientific.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (in press). How do communication systems emerge, and what does this tell us about language? In T. C. Scott-Phillips, et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Singapore: World Scientific (pp.535-536). Singapore: World Scientific.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2010). The evolution of communication and relevance. In A. D. M. Smith, et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp.489-490). Singapore: World Scientific.

Scott-Phillips, T. C., Hurford, J. R., Roberts, G., & Roberts, S. (2010). Pragmatics not semantics as the basis for clause structure. In A. D. M. Smith, et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp.491-492). Singapore: World Scientific.

de Bie, P., Scott-Phillips, T. C., Kirby, S., & Verheij, B. (2010). Using software agents to investigate the interactive origins of communication systems. In A. D. M. Smith, et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp.393-394). Singapore: World Scientific.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2008). On the correct application of animal signalling theory to human communication. In A. D. M. Smith, et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp.275-282). Singapore: World Scientific.

Scott-Phillips, T. C., Kirby, S., & Ritchie, G. R. S. (2008) Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication. In A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith & R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp.497-498). Singapore: World Scientific.

Scott-Phillips, T. C., Kirby, S., & Ritchie, G. R. S. (2007). Signalling signalhood: An exploratory study into the emergence of communicative intentions. In A. Benz, C. Ebert and R. van Rooij (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2007 workshop on Language, Games and Evolution (pp.77-84).

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2006). Why talk? Speaking as selfish behaviour. In A. Cangelosi, et al. (Eds.). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp.299-306). Singapore: World Scientific.

Commentaries, book reviews, etc.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (in press). Defending an effects-based definition of communication (commentary on Scarantino, A., Animal communication as information-mediated influence). In: U. Stegmann (Ed.), Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. Cambridge: CUP.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (in press). Functional issues in animal communication research (commentary on Rendall, D. & Owren, M. J., Communication without meaning or information: Abandoning language-based and informational constructs in animal communication theory). In: U. Stegmann (Ed.), Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. Cambridge: CUP.

Abbot, P. & 136 other authors, including Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2011). Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471, e1-e10.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2011). Review of The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives, by R. K. Larson, V. Déprez & H. Yamakido (Eds.). First Language 31(3), 368-372.

Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2009). The quest for a general account of communication. (Review of Sociobiology of Communication, by P. D'Ettorre & P. D. Hughes (Eds.)). Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 7(3), 245-249.