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Introduction

In the course of natural history, Evolution has come up with several great innovations, such as nucleic acids, proteins, cells, chromosomes, multi-cellular organisms, the nervous system.... The last “invention” which truly revolutionized the very rules of evolution is language. It gives us an unprecedented possibility to transmit information from generation to generation not by the “traditional” means of a genetic code, but by talking. This new mode of cross-generational information transfer has given rise to the so-called “cultural evolution”. It is responsible for a big part of being “human”. It is shaping the history and changing the rules of biology. Without exaggeration, it is one of the most fascinating traits of Homo Sapiens.

@incollection{komarova06populationDynamicsLanguage,
  author={N.L. Komarova},
  title={Population dynamics of human language: a complex system},
  year={2006},
  pages={89-98},
  publisher={The National Academy Press},
  booktitle={Frontiers of engineering: reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2005 symposium},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/komarova06populationDynamicsLanguage.html}
}

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