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  1. Deception as cause or consequence of language?R. I. M. Dunbar - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (3):548.
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  • What about the increasing adaptive value of manipulative language use?David Kemmerer - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (3):546-548.
    Dunbar (1993) emphasizes the role of cooperative language use in the evolution of human linguistic capacity and neglects to consider the role that manipulative language use would have played. I argue that as group size and neocortieal size increased during human evolution, the adaptive value of using language to benefit oneself at the expense of others would also have increased. I discuss how selection pressures for manipulative language use would have operated in the contexts of mating, status striving, and social (...)
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