Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7163, 2007, Pages 713-716

  Lieberman, Erez ^a,b,c   Michel, Jean Baptiste ^a,d   Jackson, Joe ^a   Tang, Tina ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE;

EID: 35148879777     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06137     Document Type: Article

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