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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Coevolutionary Investments in Human Speech and Trade
Autores: | Bulte,   Erwin H.; Horan,   Richard D.; Shogren,   Jason F.
Data: | 2006-05-31
Ano: | 2006
Palavras-chave: | Institutional and Behavioral Economics.
Resumo: | We propose a novel explanation for the emergence of language in modern humans, and the lack thereof in other hominids.  A coevolutionary process, where trade facilitates speech and speech facilitates trade, driven by expectations and potentially influenced by geography, gives rise to multiple stable development trajectories.  While the trade-speech equilibrium is not an inevitable outcome for modern humans, we do find that it is a relatively likely result given that our species evolved in Africa under climatic conditions supporting relatively high population densities.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

21835

http://purl.umn.edu/21318

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA

Selected Paper

Formato:

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