Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1597, 2012, Pages 1785-1801

  Freeberg, Todd M ^a   Dunbar, Robin I M ^b   Ord, Terry J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communicative complexity; Information; Networks; Signalling; Social complexity hypothesis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANGUAGE; SIGNALING;

EID: 84861569794     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0213     Document Type: Review

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