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Emergence of language

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Our social behaviour has evolved primarily through contact with a limited number of other individuals. Yet as a species we exhibit uniformities on a global scale. This kind of emergent behaviour is familiar territory for statistical physicists.

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  1. Department of Physics, 'Sapienza' Università di Roma and SMC, INFM-CNR, Piazzale A. Moro 2, Roma, 00185, Italy

    Vittorio Loreto

  2. Complex Networks Lagrange Laboratory, ISI Foundation, Viale S. Severo 65, Torino, 10133, Italy

    Vittorio Loreto

  3. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, B-1050, Belgium

    Luc Steels

  4. Sony Computer Science Laboratory, 6 rue Amyot, Paris, 75005, France

    Luc Steels

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Loreto, V., Steels, L. Emergence of language. Nature Phys 3, 758–760 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys770

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