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Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.
Our findings raise an exciting question: why would such different systems in such incredibly distant species have common structures? There is growing evidence from experiments with humans that having statistically coherent parts, and having them follow a Zipfian distribution, makes learning easier. This suggests that learning and transmission play an important role in how these properties emerged in both human language and whale song.
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