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Deception as cause or consequence of language?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2011
Abstract
It is suggested that language evolved to enable ancestral humans to use deception to manipulate each other rather than simply for the exchange of social information. I argue that any such usage must have been a byproduct of language evolution rather than the principal selection pressure.
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