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The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

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Divergence, Drift, and Linguistic Ancestors

They explore dialect boundaries and speciation analogies, debate drift versus selection in language change (vowel shifts, Siberian examples), and question whether Proto-Indo was a single pure ancestor or a hybrid.

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