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How (and why) languages became more complex as we evolved more prosocial: the human self-domestication view
2024-09-21
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<p>This paper aims to re-examine the problem of the emergence of present-day languages from the specific perspective of the self-domestication account of human evolution. According to this view, our species went through an evolutionary process that parallels the changes experienced by domesticated mammals. Relying on evidence of diverse kind (from paleogenetic to clinical), the paper argues that our self-domestica...
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- 4592c5c4-89e8-55e3-80f3-245e0b4279d5
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/hxyju