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  • ...nt of domestication provided a ready source of milk and an impetus for the evolution of lactose tolerance, and there is some evidence suggesting that something ...Perhaps Because human jaws have shortened over the course of the species' evolution, there isn't room for all the teeth, and the wisdom teeth are often "impact
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  • ...first (and thus far only) [[ellogy|ellogous]] beings, finally [[biological evolution|evolved]] in [[Africa]] less than a million years ago—the more specif ...hese empires eventually largely broke up, though they left many [[language|linguistic]], cultural, and ethnic traces of their existence. By the turn of the seco
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  • ...tly the same meanings to the words or phrases they use, or construct their linguistic expressions exactly the same way, which means in a way that each speaker of ...der for languages to convey unlimited shades and permutations of meanings, linguistic expressions are necessarily built up from base components according to sche
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  • Like any language, Old English [[evolution (language)|evolved]] over time, borrowing many words from [[Wikipedia:Old N ...reek and Latin, which are still to some extent seen as the touchstones for linguistic respectability, despite their somewhat distant relation to English. These
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