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Dediu, D. (2006) Mostly out of Africa, but what did the others have to say? In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 59--66.

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Abstract

The Recent Out-of-Africa human evolutionary model seems to be generally accepted. This impression is very prevalent outside palaeoanthropological circles (including studies of language evolution), but proves to be unwarranted. This paper offers a short review of the main challenges facing ROA and concludes that alternative models based on the concept of metapopulation must be also considered. The implications of such a model for language evolution and diversity are briefly reviewed.
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@inproceedings{dediu06evolang,
  author={Dan Dediu},
  title={Mostly out of Africa, but what did the others have to say?},
  year={2006},
  pages={59-66},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/dediu06evolang.html}
}