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Bards, poets, and cliques: frequency-dependent selection and the evolution of language genes.

Bulletin of mathematical biology - 1 Sept 2011

Cartwright Reed A

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The ability of humans to communicate via language is a complex, adapted phenotype, which undoubtedly has a recently evolved genetic component. However, the evolutionary dynamics of language-associated alleles are poorly understood. To improve our knowledge of such systems, a population-genetics model for language-associated genes is developed. (The model is general and applicable to social interactions other than...

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PMID: 21191662
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9619-z
PMCID: PMC3718555

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