At grammatical faculty of language, flies outsmart men.

Using a symbolic dynamics and a surrogate data approach, we show that the language exhibited by common fruit flies Drosophila ('D.') during courtship is as grammatically complex as the most complex human-spoken modern languages. This finding emerges from the study of fifty high-speed court...

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Main Authors: Ruedi Stoop, Patrick Nüesch, Ralph Lukas Stoop, Leonid A Bunimovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3751931?pdf=render