Across the curious parallel of language and species evolution

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1370-1372

  Whitfield, John ^a  

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Indexed keywords

GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; INHERITANCE; LANGUAGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; SOCIAL CHANGE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 48349111102     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060186     Document Type: Short Survey

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