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Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa

Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir. Now linguist Michael Cysouw from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich has challenged its conclusions, in a commentary just published in Science....

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Source: PhysOrg - Wednesday, 15 February

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