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Confrontational scavenging as a possible source for language and cooperation

The emergence of language and the high degree of cooperation found among humans seems to require more than a straightforward enhancement of primate traits. Some triggering episode unique to human ancestors was likely necessary. Here it is argued that confrontational scavenging was such an episode. A...

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Autores principales: Bickerton, Derek, Szathmáry, Eörs
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3188516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21933413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-261