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From: smryan@netcom.com (S M Ryan)
Subject: Re: Proto-World: several?
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 08:20:08 GMT
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: Yes indeed, why not. Saying that language must have had a single
: origin strikes me as equivalent to saying that the ability to
: fly must have had a single origin. It is patently silly. But
: silliness has never stopped anyone. 

My biology is obviously rusty. I hadn't realised punctuated
equilibrium hypothesis had been rejected.
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