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Benjamin Kenward1, Carl-Adam Wachtmeister, Stefano Ghirlanda

  • 1Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 106 91, Sweden. benjamin.kenward@zoology.oxford.ac.uk

Journal of Theoretical Biology
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evolutionary biologyvisual patternsneural networkssignal evolution

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