Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir. Now linguist Michael Cysouw from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich has challenged its conclusions, in a commentary just published in Science.