The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans
The Case for Accent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2223091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Cohen (0000-0002-5465-3440, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 588-616 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/667654 |
| OpenAlex | W1553256758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 167 |
Recent game-theoretic simulation and analytical models have demonstrated that cooperative strategies mediated by indicators of cooperative potential, or "tags," can invade, spread, and resist invasion by noncooperators across a range of population-structure and cost-benefit scenarios. The plausibility of these models is potentially relevant for human evolutionary accounts insofar as humans possess some phenotypic trait that could serve as a reliable tag. Linguistic markers, such as accent and dialect, have frequently been either cursorily defended or promptly dismissed as satisfying the criteria of a reliable and evolutionarily viable tag. This paper integrates evidence from a range of disciplines to develop and assess the claim that speech accent mediated the evolution of tag-based cooperation in humans. Existing evidence warrants the preliminary conclusion that accent markers meet the demands of an evolutionarily viable tag and potentially afforded a cost-effective solution to the challenges of maintaining viable cooperative relationships in diffuse, regional social networks
Biology · Data science · Economics · Evolutionary game theory · Game theory · Microeconomics · Population · Range (aeronautics · Sociology · Stress (linguistics · Trait · Computer Science · Engineering · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Language and cultural evolution
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