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<title lang=en>Unity and disunity in evolutionary sciences: process-based analogies open common research avenues for biology and linguistics</title>
<creator>List, Johann-Mattis</creator>
<creator>Sylvestre Pathmanathan, Jananan</creator>
<creator>Lopez, Philippe</creator>
<creator>Bapteste, Eric</creator>
<contributor>Evolution Paris Seine ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) ; Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) - Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) - Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG) - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)</contributor>
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<description>International audience</description>
<source>ISSN: 1745-6150</source>
<source>Biology Direct</source>
<publisher>BioMed Central</publisher>
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<source>Biology Direct, BioMed Central, 2016, 11, pp.39. 〈10.1186/s13062-016-0145-2〉</source>
<identifier>DOI : 10.1186/s13062-016-0145-2</identifier>
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<subject lang=en>Constructive neutral evolution</subject>
<subject lang=en>Similarity networks</subject>
<subject lang=en>Incomplete lineage sorting</subject>
<subject lang=en>Lateral transfer</subject>
<subject lang=en>Language evolution</subject>
<subject lang=en>Protein assembly</subject>
<subject lang=en>Word formation</subject>
<subject lang=en>Process-based analogies</subject>
<subject>[SHS.HISPHILSO] Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences</subject>
<subject>[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]</subject>
<subject>[SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics</subject>
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<description lang=en>BackgroundFor a long time biologists and linguists have been noticing surprising similarities between the evolution of life forms and languages. Most of the proposed analogies have been rejected. Some, however, have persisted, and some even turned out to be fruitful, inspiring the transfer of methods and models between biology and linguistics up to today. Most proposed analogies were based on a comparison of the research objects rather than the processes that shaped their evolution. Focusing on process-based analogies, however, has the advantage of minimizing the risk of overstating similarities, while at the same time reflecting the common strategy to use processes to explain the evolution of complexity in both fields.ResultsWe compared important evolutionary processes in biology and linguistics and identified processes specific to only one of the two disciplines as well as processes which seem to be analogous, potentially reflecting core evolutionary processes. These new process-based analogies support novel methodological transfer, expanding the application range of biological methods to the field of historical linguistics. We illustrate this by showing (i) how methods dealing with incomplete lineage sorting offer an introgression-free framework to analyze highly mosaic word distributions across languages; (ii) how sequence similarity networks can be used to identify composite and borrowed words across different languages; (iii) how research on partial homology can inspire new methods and models in both fields; and (iv) how constructive neutral evolution provides an original framework for analyzing convergent evolution in languages resulting from common descent (Sapir’s drift).ConclusionsApart from new analogies between evolutionary processes, we also identified processes which are specific to either biology or linguistics. This shows that general evolution cannot be studied from within one discipline alone. In order to get a full picture of evolution, biologists and linguists need to complement their studies, trying to identify cross-disciplinary and discipline-specific evolutionary processes. The fact that we found many process-based analogies favoring transfer from biology to linguistics further shows that certain biological methods and models have a broader scope than previously recognized. This opens fruitful paths for collaboration between the two disciplines.</description>
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<date>2016</date>
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