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I thank Professors Noam Chomsky, Robert Lees, Richard Lewontin and Salvador Luria for their comments and encouragement, and Messrs. Gregory Williams and Robert Carp for helpful discussions.

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Shanon, B. The genetic code and human language. Synthese 39, 401–415 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869557

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