Are people's interactions driven by a primitive, non-linguistic type of communication? Mark Buchanan looks at how modern technology can reveal the basis of our powers of persuasion.
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Mark Buchanan is a science writer based in the United Kingdom. He is author of The Social Atom.
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Buchanan, M. Behavioural Science: Secret signals. Nature 457, 528–530 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457528a
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