Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems

Interaction Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-137

  Cornish, Hannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Iterated learning; Language emergence; Linguistic transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949281467     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.11.1.02cor     Document Type: Article

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