Yes, obviously: emotional "displays have not evolved to provide a fixed read-out of internal states but rather to influence the behaviour of other people"https://twitter.com/amelapay/status/1000108333527904256 …
Not true: there is genuine benefit in cooperation too. Which is why adversarial communication often attempts to mimic cooperative communication
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Not sure I see a contradiction between these hypotheses.
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"I think ... that ALL animal communication is an attempt to manipulate..."
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