The Evolution of Language

I was reading a passage that you quoted from Jared Diamond in fact in Guncharamsen Steel which you quote in your book and a question struck me after reading that so first I'll sort of read that out and then I'll ask my question. He's talking about what happens when a technologically more advanced group enters a new territory as would be the case with the Ariana and the houses. In regions occupied by food producing tribes no large vacant areas remain to which survivors of a defeated bandkin flea do the victors have no use forsurvivors of a defeated tribe unless to take the women in marriage the defeated men are killed and their territory may be occupied by the vict

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