About the Authors

Joseph G. Mine

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

joseph.mine@univ-rennes.fr

Affiliations Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Animal and Human Ethology, University of Rennes, Rennes, France

Laura C. Dees

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Claudia Wilke

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Erik P. Willems

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Zarin P. Machanda

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Anthropology and Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin N. Muller

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Melissa Emery Thompson

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Richard W. Wrangham

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erik J. Scully

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin Langergraber

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Sabine Stoll

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Linguistic Research Infrastructure, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Katie E. Slocombe

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Simon W. Townsend

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

SWT is a member of PLOS Biology’s Editorial Board. The other authors declare that no competing interests exist.