Major Transitions in Language Evolution

Abstract: Language is the most important evolutionary invention of the last few million years. How human language evolved from animal communication is a challenging question for evolutionary biology. In this paper we use mathematical models to analyze the major transitions in language evolution. We...

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Main Authors: Martin A. Nowak, Joshua B. Plotkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2001-10-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/3/4/227/