The"arrow oftime" is based on the notion that it is possible to use data from modern languages to trace their origins back 10, 000 years or even further.
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But the latest Science paper "and our own observations suggest that it is possible to detect an arrowoftime" underlying proto-human languages spoken more than 8, 000 years ago, said Murray Gell-Mann ofthe Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, who read the Science paper and supports it.