Putting the cart before the horse? The origin of information donation

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e5 (2023)
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Heintz & Scott-Phillips propose that the partner choice ecology of our ancestors required Gricean cognitive pragmatics for reputation management, which caused a tendency toward showing and expecting prosociality that subsequently scaffolded language evolution. Here, we suggest a cognitively leaner explanation that is more consistent with comparative data and posits that prosociality and eventually language evolved along with cooperative breeding.

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Studies in the Way of Words.Paul Grice - 1989 - Philosophy 65 (251):111-113.

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