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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
As some have commented, use of language changes (I'll leave the use of "evolution" to the biologists).
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As a biologist, I can add that we use special genetics software to track the evolution, diversification and heritable changes over time in DNA sequences.
Exactly the same software has been used to track the evolution & 'relatedness' of words, languages and grammar styles.
Neither genes nor languages are static through time.
Dean