An error limit for the evolution of language

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1433, 1999, Pages 2131-2136

  Nowak, Martin A ^a   Krakauer, David C ^a   Dress, Andreas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Language; Maihematicai biology; Phonemes; Words

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033595822     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0898     Document Type: Article

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