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Evolutionary Babel Was in Southern Africa


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Where did humanity utter its first words? A new linguistic analysis attempts to rewrite the story of Babel by borrowing from the methods of genetic analysis—and finds that modern language originated in sub-Saharan Africa and spread across the world with migrating human populations.

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