Map shows the regions with languages des...  ...7 Eurasiatic language families (Image: Pagel et al./PNAS) We're all just part of a big,...  ...nguistic family. Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel of Reading University claimed that lang...  ...some words last much longer. In a previous st...

Mark Pagel , evolutionary biologist at the University of Read...  ...rom a common ancestral word," said Professor Pagel . [...]For example, the words "I" and &q...