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. 2023 Oct 2:46:e255.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23000754.

The design space of human communication and the nonevolution of ideography

Walter Veit  1 , Heather Browning  2
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The design space of human communication and the nonevolution of ideography

Walter Veit et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

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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