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Biocultural evolution and human language diversity

2023-10-26

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<p>The turn of the century witnessed key developments in biological sciences with profound implications both for biological theory and for the sciences of language. The decoding of the human genome showed that humans share with their closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, between 95% and 98% of their genes, depending on the methodology for establishing similarity. This finding threw doubt on the plausi...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/b2yk4

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