The importance of rapid cultural convergence in the evolution of learned symbolic communication

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2159, Issue , 2001, Pages 637-640

  Smith, Kenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; KEY FACTORS; NATURALLY OCCURRING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84949787802     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44811-x_72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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