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Computo ergo Sum

Sergio Balari and Guillermo Lorenzo: Computational Phenotypes—Towards an Evolutionary Developmental Biolinguistics; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, 256 pp., £29,99, ISBN 978-0-19-966547-1

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Funding was provided by a European Research Council Advanced Grant SOMACCA (No. 230604) awarded to William Tecumseh Fitch. The funders had no role in the decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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Filippi, P. Computo ergo Sum. Biol Theory 9, 115–118 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-013-0147-6

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