MORPHING SOCIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS FROM CHIMPANZEE TO HUMAN TYPE

摘要

We present here a network model designed to check if the simple addition of structure through the diversification of social actors could progressively morph the random social communication networks of early Homo to the small-world communication networks of late Paleolithic huntergatherers (Naccache, 2012). The analysis of the network model confirmed the possibility of the transition, and in addition provided us with new insights in both the processes of network construction and of language evolution.