Evolution: Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5743, 2005, Pages 2007-2008

  Gray, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE;

ARCHEOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ASIA; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 25444435454     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119276     Document Type: Review

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