Bards, Poets, and Cliques: Frequency-Dependent Selection and the Evolution of Language Genes

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2201-2212

  Cartwright, Reed A ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative interaction; Dynamics; FOXP2; Language faculty; Pairwise interaction; Stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79961020478     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9619-z     Document Type: Article

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