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Darwin’s tongues: Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales

Nov 19, 2011

Talk is cheap, but scientific value lurks in all that gab. Words cascading out of countless flapping gums contain secrets about the evolution of language that a new breed of researchers plan to expose with statistical tools borrowed from genetics.

Darwin’s tongues: Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales

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