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. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):657; author reply 657.
doi: 10.1126/science.1208841.

Comment on "Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa"

Michael Cysouw  1 , Dan Dediu, Steven Moran
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Comment on "Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa"

Michael Cysouw et al. Science. .

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We show that Atkinson's (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) intriguing proposal--that global linguistic diversity supports a single language origin in Africa--is an artifact of using suboptimal data, biased methodology, and unjustified assumptions. We criticize his approach using more suitable data, and we additionally provide new results suggesting a more complex scenario for the emergence of global linguistic diversity.

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