Facial Features Linked to Origin of Ancient Languages
Ancient language families linked to anthropological features, say Tübingen researchers.
University of Tübingen researchers have found evidence that common descent of human populations is reflected both in their cranial features and their linguistic affiliations over vast geographic distances. The formation of different languages and language groupings appears to have happened in the same broad period and geographical locations as the development of facial features in various human populations, according to linguistics professor, Gerhard Jäger, and paleoanthropologists, Professor Katerina Harvati and Dr. Hugo Reyes-Centeno.
In their study, the authors demonstrate that both expectations are met, and that they also hold across the boundaries of language families. They also found that linguistic distances correlate more strongly with the facial features of the cranium than with the neurocranium, which may reflect different rates of evolution of the traits regarded, where language and facial features change faster than neurocranial features.
According to the prevailing wisdom in historical linguistics, it is only possible to demonstrate languages to be related if their latest common ancestor was spoken up to 10,000 years ago. Individual researchers have tried to push this boundary further back in time, but their efforts have generally been met with skepticism by the experts.
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Citation: Tracking modern human population history from linguistic and cranial phenotype. Authors:Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Katerina Harvati & Gerhard Jäger: Scientific Reports, DOI 10.1038/srep36645, http://www.nature.com/articles/srep36645
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2016/11/facial-features-linked-to-origin-of.html
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