Across the Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution
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- 22 July 2008
- journal article
- other
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 6 (7) , e186
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060186
Abstract
Evolutionary biologists are applying their tools to language--and trying to work out why the dynamics of language and biological evolution look so similar.Keywords
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