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. 2010 Nov 24;278(1713):1794–1803. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1917

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Figure 3. — Inference of borrowing frequency by ancestral vocabulary size. (a–d) Schematic (left) and dynamics of ancestral and contemporary vocabulary size (right) under the different borrowing models. The fraction of interquartile range ((Median_ancestral − Median_contemporary)/IQR_contemporary) in the different models is as follows. Loss only: 2.92; origin only: 1.93; BOR1: 0.12; BOR3: −0.86. Green triangles, origin; red circles, loss; green circles, word presence; blue line, contemporary languages; red line, ancestral languages.