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The digital origin of human language--a synthesis.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 May 2003

Noll Hans

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The fact that all languages known are digital poses the question of their origin. The answer developed here treats language as the interface of information theory and molecular development by showing previously unrecognized isomorphisms between the analog and digital features of language and life at the molecular level. Human language is a special case of signal transduction and hence is subject to the coding...

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PMID: 12717819
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10281

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