The evolution of syntactic communication

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6777, 2000, Pages 495-498

  Nowak, Martin A ^a   Plotkin, Joshua B ^a   Jansen, Vincent A A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034732306     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35006635     Document Type: Article

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