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| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 52 |
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| 1990 | - | Language and mind - Chomsky | :: | 42 |
| 1993 | - | Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication - MacLennan,Burghardt | :: | 40 |
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| 1995 | - | Small Signaling Systems can Evolve in the Absence of Benefit to the Information Sender - Batali | :: | 9 |
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| 1992 | - | Evolutionary games and spatial chaos - Nowak,May | :: | 8 |
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| 1995 | - | Why does culture increase human adaptability - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 6 |
| 1990 | - | Species and language - Bickerton | :: | 6 |
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| 1986 | - | From icons to symbols: some speculations on the origins of language - Brandon,Hornstein | :: | 5 |
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| 1987 | - | Local traditions and cultural transmission - Nishida | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins - Herman,Richards,Wolz | :: | 1 |
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| 1978 | - | Title - Dawkins,Krebs | :: | 1 |
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