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Evolutionary anthropology

the hypothesis that the visible white sclera of the human eye evolved to make gaze direction readable in cooperative interaction.

In evolutionary anthropology, cooperative eye hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that the visible white sclera of the human eye evolved to make gaze direction readable in cooperative interaction. This meaning comes from Tomasello (2007) in Journal of Human Evolution.[1]

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References

Tomasello, M., Hare, B., Lehmann, H., & Call, J. (2007). Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis. Journal of Human Evolution, 52(3), 314-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.10.001

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