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Loreto, V. and Steels, L. (2007) Social dynamics: Emergence of language. Nature Physics, 3:758--760.
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Abstract

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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@article{loreto07socialDynamics,
  author={Vittorio Loreto and Luc Steels},
  title={Social dynamics: Emergence of language},
  journal={Nature Physics},
  year={2007},
  month={November},
  volume={3},
  pages={758-760},
  doi={10.1038/nphys770},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/loreto07socialDynamics.html}
}