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Words of wisdom worth reading aloud

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I congratulate Erez Lieberman and colleagues on their entertaining, enthralling and, above all, well-written Letter 'Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language' (Nature 449, 713–716; 2007). Nature articles outside my sphere of interest are of interest to me as far as the abstract; after that I am rapidly lost in a forest of jargon, technicalities and poorly articulated background information.

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