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The Origin of Language

Possibly answering a question that has flummoxed linguists for generations, a New Zealand biologist used mathematical theory to investigate where and how human language originated. A linguist at the University of Pennsylvania says that, if accurate, "... it’s one of the most interesting articles in historical linguistics that I’ve seen in a decade.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/science/15language.html

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