Friday 15 January 2021

Researchers offer insights on how diet ultimately reshapes language

Anthropologist Caleb Everett and former student Sihan Chen used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet—contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers—is restructuring dentition and changing how people speak.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-insights-diet-ultimately-reshapes-language.html