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Ostensive communication, market exchange, mindshaping, and elephants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2023

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Don Ross*
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School of Society, Politics, and Ethics, University College Cork, Cork T12 AW89, Ireland School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa don.ross931@gmail.com http://uct.academia.edu/DonRoss Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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Abstract

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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e14
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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