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