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Nature 404, 441-442 (30 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35006523;

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Survival of the clearest

The study of the evolution of language, famously banned by the Soci|[eacute]|t|[eacute]| de Linguistique de Paris in 1866 and dismissed as idle story-telling ever since, has returned to respectability. Recent years have seen a flurry of articles and books, a biannual research conference and now several papers by Martin Nowak and collaborators applying evolutionary game theory to the problem.

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