The Natural Selection of Private and Inner Speech
This article analyzes the emergence of private and inner speech from the perspective of natural selection, arguing that social speech acts as a selection pressure for the emergence of private speech, that private speech acts as a selection pressure that leads to the emergence of inner speech, and th...
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| description | This article analyzes the emergence of private and inner speech from the perspective of natural selection, arguing that social speech acts as a selection pressure for the emergence of private speech, that private speech acts as a selection pressure that leads to the emergence of inner speech, and that this view of private and inner speech may help to explain the natural selection of a variety of other traits of the human mind in an asymmetric intraspecific evolutionary arms race. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3db5ddc6d75e48ce99de78519dc7b7562022-12-21T23:44:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-02-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.00163498745The Natural Selection of Private and Inner SpeechSean O’ConnorThis article analyzes the emergence of private and inner speech from the perspective of natural selection, arguing that social speech acts as a selection pressure for the emergence of private speech, that private speech acts as a selection pressure that leads to the emergence of inner speech, and that this view of private and inner speech may help to explain the natural selection of a variety of other traits of the human mind in an asymmetric intraspecific evolutionary arms race.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00163/fullevolutionnatural selectionprivate speechinner speechevolutionary psychologythought |
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| title | The Natural Selection of Private and Inner Speech |
| title_full | The Natural Selection of Private and Inner Speech |
| title_fullStr | The Natural Selection of Private and Inner Speech |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Natural Selection of Private and Inner Speech |
| title_short | The Natural Selection of Private and Inner Speech |
| title_sort | natural selection of private and inner speech |
| topic | evolution natural selection private speech inner speech evolutionary psychology thought |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00163/full |
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