Language as an emergent group-level trait

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (3):274-275 (2014)
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Abstract

Following Smaldino's definition, we claim that language is also an emergent group-level trait, and propose two facets to verify this statement, both of which also provide a general framework to address the future work about group-level traits.

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