title: Click to connect.
abstract: Humans have been enormously successful in exploiting a range of sounds used in language, but none more so than the click consonants used by a few populations in eastern and southern Africa. New research suggests these click languages represent an ancient human language.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000351:Africa, Eastern; D000353:Africa, Southern; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics; D006239:Haplotypes / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language