With the present paper, we sought to use research findings to illustrate the following thesis:
the evolution of language follows the principles of human evolution. We argued that …

Abstract The seminal book The Neolithic transition and the genetics of populations in
Europe by Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza (1984) contains the analysis of archaeological …

The continuous advancement of urbanization and the expansion of cities inevitably have
certain impacts on urban wildlife. Birds are a highly visible group of urban wildlife, widely …

High-dimensional datasets on cultural characters contribute to uncovering insights about
factors that influence cultural evolution. Because cultural variation in part reflects descent …

The accurate determination of the spatial trends on the variability of a species' gene pool is
essential to elucidate the underlying demographic-evolutionary events, thus hel** to …

A phoneme is a group of sounds that have psychological meaning and reality in a language.
Edward Sapir used this notion in his explanation of the unconscious patternings found in …

The study of the origin of human language (s) is particularly challenging due to the lack of
direct data on ancient languages [1]. Languages spoken in Africa tend to have the largest …