Comment on “Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”
Abstract
Atkinson (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) concluded that language originated in western Africa and that, due to a serial founder effect, languages repeatedly lost phonemes the farther they moved from the African point of origin. Independent examination of the published data tends to refute both these claims.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- February 2012
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- Bibcode:
- 2012Sci...335..657V
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- EVOLUTION