The design space of human communication and the nonevolution of ideography

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2023) The design space of human communication and the nonevolution of ideography. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, [e255]. (doi:10.1017/S0140525X23000754).

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Abstract

Despite the once-common idea that a universal ideography would have numerous advantages, attempts to develop such ideographies have failed. Here, we make use of the biological idea of fitness landscapes to help us understand the nonevolution of such a universal ideographic code as well as how we might reach this potential global fitness peak in the design space.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 2 October 2023

Additional Information: Funding Information: This paper is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number 101018533).

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