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- ↑ Nolfi, Stefano; Mirolli, Marco (2010). Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783642012495 . Retrieved 2008-02-20.
- ↑ Nolfi, Stefano; Marocco, Davide (2007). "Communication in Natural and Artificial Organisms Experiments in Evolutionary Robotics". In Lyon, C.; Nehaniv, C.; Cangelosi, A. (eds.). Emergence of Communication and Language (PDF). Vol. 11. Berlin: Springer Verlag. pp. 189–206. Bibcode:2007ecl..book.....L.
- ↑ Nolfi, Stefano (2021). Behavioral and Cognitive Robotics: An Adaptive Perspective. CNR-ISTC.
