MIT Study Links All Languages To A Common Origin
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That's not really what the study concludes. This headline makes it sound like early humanity once all spoke a single mother language, and that's simply not supported by any data. This study concludes that there is evidence of the capacity for language and the effects of complex communication that predates the shared genetic origin of modern humans. So early progenitors had the capacity for language and likely communicated before the first diaspora.