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Does language arise from a calculus of dominance?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
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.
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