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Languages divide, then bloom

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Linguistic evolution is marked by "punctuational bursts".

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  1. Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S. J. & Pagel, M. Science 319, 588 (2008).

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Marris, E. Languages divide, then bloom. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.547

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