[Phys.org] Genes and languages aren't always found together, says new study

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[Phys.org] Genes and languages aren't always found together, says new study

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Linguistics@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Genes and languages aren't always found together, says new study

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More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to biological traits. But have language and genes evolved in parallel over the past few thousand years, as Charles Darwin originally thought?

Link for the study: A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories

The conclusion itself is nothing new, but there are some interesting tidbits, such as about 1/5 of the gene-language relations being a mismatch.

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