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Wang, E. and Steels, L. (2008) Self-Interested Agents can Bootstrap Symbolic Communication if They Punish Cheaters. In A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 362--369. World Scientific.

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1995 -A self-organizing spatial vocabulary - Steels :: 46
1971 -The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers :: 24
1981 -The evolution of cooperation - Axelrod,Hamilton :: 10
2000 -Language and hominid politics - Dessalles :: 7
1982 -Strategic information transmission - Crawford,Sobel :: 6
1991 -Blood relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture - Knight :: 4
2008 -Sociality is a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language - Steels :: 1
2006 -Why talk? Speaking as selfish behaviour - Scott-Phillips :: 1