Does language arise from a calculus of dominance?
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- continuing commentary
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Vol. 18 (2) , 387
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00039030
Abstract
Robin Dunbar's hypothesis that language capacity in response to the demands of maintaining large groups suggests a more specific hypothesis that language arose from a cognitive calculus by which animals could predict their status in complex dominance situations.Keywords
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