Language steamrollers?

John Edward Terrell (), John Hines, Terry L. Hunt, Chapurukha Kusimba and Carl Lipo
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John Edward Terrell: New Guinea Research Program, The Field Museum
John Hines: School of History and Archaeology, University of Wales
Terry L. Hunt: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Chapurukha Kusimba: The Field Museum
Carl Lipo: University of Washington

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6667, 547-547

Abstract: Abstract Jared Diamond's tabulation1 of the number and degree of dissimilarity between the world's extant languages shows how unevenly this kind of human variation is distributed geographically. This is perhaps the greatest mystery of historical linguistics. If early Holocene linguistic upheavals are crucial for understanding human population genetics, it is no less crucial that we should be fully aware of the uncertain nature of the prehistoric facts that linguistic data can be used to reconstruct.

Date: 1998
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