# Doyle 2011: Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

> Laurance R. Doyle, Brenda McCowan, Simon Johnston et al., 2011. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The bioinformatics and signal-processing…

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# Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Laurance R. Doyle, Brenda McCowan, Simon Johnston et al., 2011. _Acta Astronautica_.

Applies information theory, including Zipf's law and conditional entropy, to animal communication, and proposes the same measures as a filter for signals from other intelligences.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018)** Checked against the original0

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The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey lists it among ways of asking whether a sequence carries language-like structure.

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Doyle, L. R., McCowan, B., Johnston, S., & Hanser, S. F. (2011). Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Acta Astronautica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018
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