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