Kinship Without Words
This article seeks to identify at what point in hominid evolution language would have become adaptive. It starts by recalling the distinction between kin-selected altruism and reciprocal altruism, noting that the former is characteristic of social insects while the latter is found among some species...
Main Author: | Layton, R. (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2021
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Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
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