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A common Situation occurring in a number of contexts is that in which a number of “agents” reach a consensus without a central direction. An example of this is the way in which populations of animals move together. Another example is the emergence of common language in primitive societies, or the dawn of vowel systems.
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Blanchard, P. (2013). Language evolution as generalized epidemic process on inhomogeneous random graphs. In: Frank-Job, B., Mehler, A., Sutter, T. (eds) Die Dynamik sozialer und sprachlicher Netzwerke. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93336-8_4
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