Common language or Tower of Babel? On the evolutionary dynamics of signals and their meanings

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2003-01-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2002.2151PMID 12590773PMCID PMC1691216
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