Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> (If it's a gentic defect, children fathered by river traders will lack at least
> one allele of it, and potentially pass it on to half-caste children of their
> own, who'd lack it entirely. What would happened to a child with normal innate
> linguistic capacity growing up in a society where everyone else, in effect, is
> linguistically challenged?)
Unless it's (shudder) dominant.

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