Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria: Implications for the Origins of Linguistic Generativity

Combinatorial communication, in which two signals are used together to achieve an effect that is different to the sum of the effects of the component parts, is apparently rare in nature: it is ubiquitous in human language, appears to exist in a simple form in some non-human primates, but has not bee...

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Main Authors: Scott-Phillips, Thomas C., Gurney, James, Ivens, Alasdair, Diggle, Stephen P., Popat, Roman
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3997515/