In silico evolutionary developmental neurobiology and the origin of natural language

Emergence of Communication and Language

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 151-187

  Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,b,c   Szathmáry, Zoltán ^a   Ittzés, Péter ^a   Orbaán, Gergo ^a   Zachár, István ^a,b   Huszár, Ferenc ^a   Fedor, Anna ^a,b   Varga, Máté ^a,b   Számadó, Szabolcs ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-779-4_8     Document Type: Chapter

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