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Abstract

The evolution of species and languages are compared with respect to the distinction between homologies and homoplasies (or analogies), the prevalence of hybridism, the contrast between scenarios, trees and cladograms, the metaphysical nature of species and languages, and the sense in which the evolution of languages is or is not Lamarckian.

Keywords: trees, trees, Selection, phylogeny, homology, homoplasy, hybridism, cladograms, Lamarckian inheritance

@article{hull02speciesLanguages,
  author={D. L. Hull},
  title={Species, Languages and the Comparative Method},
  journal={Selection},
  year={2002},
  month={November},
  volume={3},
  number={1},
  pages={17-28},
  doi={10.1556/Select.3.2002.1.3},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/hull02speciesLanguages.html},
  keywords={trees, trees, Selection, phylogeny, homology, homoplasy, hybridism, cladograms, Lamarckian inheritance}
}