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Published online 30 July 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020729-2
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Species and languages flock together
Cultural and biological diversity are highest in the same places.
Areas with the most animal species also contain the greatest number of human languages, say researchers. The coincidence of biological and cultural diversity hints that preserving cultures may also preserve species, and vice versa.
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