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Write poems, get lucky

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  1. NettleD. & KeenooH._et al_. Proc Royal Soc B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3349 (2005).

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Simonite, T. Write poems, get lucky. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/051128-5

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