Humanity’s dispersal out of Africa and subsequent peopling of essentially all ice-free land across the globe has triggered waves of extinctions, which for many groups, including birds, have been particularly large across isolated archipelagos1,2,3(Fig.1). Even small human populations rapidly devas...
Indo-Aryan is a major subbranch of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European, forming the easternmost extant subgroup within the Indo-European language family, and it is also the dominant language family in South Asia. IA languages are spoken throughout the whole of South Asia, and any invest...