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of either biological species or languages, but after the contact of Schleicher with Darwin's ideas, and perhaps Darwin's contact with the historical linguists, Evolution and language change were inextricably linked, and would become the basis for classification. Now, as then, the main problems would be to prove specific lines of descent, and to identify the branch points.

Phylogenetic tree

The old metaphor was given an entirely new meaning under the old name by Joseph Harold Greenberg

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