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The evolution of cooperative communication: can gesture bridge the gap?| old_uid | 11695 |
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| title | The evolution of cooperative communication: can gesture bridge the gap? |
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| start_date | 2016/06/23 |
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| schedule | 15h45-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Conference room 163 |
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| summary | Human language is a fundamentally cooperative enterprise, embodying fast-paced and extended social interactions. It has been suggested that it evolved as part of a larger adaptation of humans’ species-unique forms of cooperation. Although our closest living relatives, great apes, show general cooperative abilities, their communicative interactions seem to lack the cooperative nature of human conversation. Here, I will revisit this claim by (i) providing an overview of the state of the art and (ii) presenting data of a recent comparative study on communicative complexity and development in bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) living in four different communities in their natural environments (bonobos: LuiKotale, DRC; Wamba, DRC; chimpanzees: Taï South, Côte d’Ivoire; Kanyawara, Uganda). Results strengthen the hypothesis that interactional intelligence paved the way to the cooperative endeavour of human language and suggest that social matrices highly impact upon communication styles. |
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| responsibles | Udden, Lev-Ari |
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