Ostensive communication, market exchange, mindshaping, and elephants

Heintz & Scott-Phillips's hypothesis that the topic range and type diversity of human expressive communication gains support from consilience with prior accounts of market exchange as fundamental to unique human niche construction, and of mindshaping as much more important than mindreading....

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Published inThe Behavioral and brain sciences Vol. 46; p. e14
Main Author Ross, Don
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 17.02.2023
Subjects
Animals
Communication
Cooperation
Elephants
Humans
Hypotheses
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Summary:Heintz & Scott-Phillips's hypothesis that the topic range and type diversity of human expressive communication gains support from consilience with prior accounts of market exchange as fundamental to unique human niche construction, and of mindshaping as much more important than mindreading. The productivity of the idea is illustrated by the light it might shed on why elephants seem to engage in continuous social communication for little evident purpose.
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ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X22000760