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Book: Origin and Evolution of Languages

Chapter: Genetic evolution and the evolution of languages

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.19024

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The study of human evolution has made recent advances, and we now have a reasonable model of how modern humans spread around the globe populating it with Homo sapiens sapiens. I will summarize in the following the views that are today accepted by an increasing number of scholars and go under the name of standard model of the evolution of modern humans.

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