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Balanced imitation sustains song culture in zebra finches

Songbirds acquire songs by imitation, as humans do speech. Although imitation should drive convergence within a group and divergence through drift between groups, zebra finch songs sustain high diversity within a colony, but mild variation across colonies. We investigated this phenomenon by analyzin...

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Autores principales: Tchernichovski, Ofer, Eisenberg-Edidin, Sophie, Jarvis, Erich D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33963187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22852-3