The role of genetic biases in shaping the correlations between languages and genes

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 400-407

  Dediu, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer model; Genetic bias; Language change

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE; GENE; GENETICS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BIAS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GENES; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 50149101273     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

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