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F's and V's Might Have Appeared After Agriculture - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/farming-hunter-gatherers-labiodentals-linguistics/584950/
If farming helped introduce f’s and v’s 12,000 years ago, it would challenge the principle that humans’ language abilities haven’t significantly changed since we first learned to speak.