Languages are diverse: thousands are spoken worldwide, and they differ widely in the structures they use. Human DNA variation preserves the history of populations and individuals. Are these two dimens...

Linguistic structures show uneven global distributions, but it remains unknown to what extent such distributions are driven by human population his...

Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

When populations meet, they typically exchange genes. Their languages meet too, and such encounters can change languages. But how much do languages actually change through contact, and do these change...

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