COGNITIVE TRADE-OFF HYPOTHESIS
As proposed by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, postulates that a trade-off between superior language facility at the expense of memory ability based on social life occurred during human evolution. In comparison to chimpanzees, who possess superior short-term memory abilities and no known language, humans de-emphasized short term memory for extraordinary language capacity, which may be one mechanism for increased collaboration and altruism in humans

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