Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-11-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Linguistics

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2008.0145PMID 18801718PMCID PMC2607345
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