evolution
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: The evolution of linguistic diversity: the case of South America
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: The evolution of linguistic diversity: the case of South AmericaAbstract It has been observed many times that linguistic diversity is unevenly distributed over the globe. This is true for language diversity (e.g. Derungs et al. 2018; Hua et al. 2019), genealogical diversity (e.g. Gavin et al. 2013; Norder and Van Gijn 2026), and structural diversity (e.g. Dahl 2008; Skirgård et al. 2023). These non-randomly…
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Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in Nature
Read more →: Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in NatureMattias Jakobsson and Carina Schlebusch are two co-authors of the study on ancient South Africans that was just published. Abstract Homo sapiens evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago in Africa, later spreading across the globe, but the early evolutionary process is debated. Here we present whole-genome sequencing data for 28 ancient southern African individuals, including…