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No matter how the question is approached, we cannot discover any obvious relationship between the various populations which use the whistled languages described here, and one can only conclude that these are either independent inventions or vestigial remains of a proto-historical general phenomenon which has succeeded in surviving under certain geographical and cultural conditions. If this entirely gratuitous hypothesis is not to be rejected out of hand, it is essential in the first place to examine the local conditions in which these populations live and to discover what factors are common to all. This is the subject of this chapter.
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Busnel, RG., Classe, A. (1976). Ecology. In: Whistled Languages. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46335-8_2
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