<div>A very significant paper has just been published in the Proceedings Of the National Academy of Sciences</div>  <div>(It must, by definition, be very significant in light of the paucity of linguistic papers in mainstream science journals).</div>  <div> </div>  <div><U><STRONG>Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia</STRONG></U></div>  <div> </div>  <div>For those without access to PNAS, I have uploaded it to:</div>  <div><A href="http://coconutstudio.com/Coevolution%20of%20languages%20and%20genes%20on%20the%20island%20of%20Sumba,%20eastern%20Indonesia%20--%20Lansing%20et%20al.pdf">http://coconutstudio.com/Coevolution%20of%20languages%20and%20genes%20on%20the%20island%20of%20Sumba,%20eastern%20Indonesia%20--%20Lansing%20et%20al.pdf</A></div>  <div><A href="http://tinyurl.com/27nltf">http://tinyurl.com/27nltf</A></div>  <div> </div>  <div>I would be very interested to hear Austronesianists' critiques of what seems to be
 very revealing methodology and findings</div>  <div> </div>  <div>best regards</div>  <div><BR>Richard Parker<BR>Siargao Island, The Philippines. </div>  <div><BR>I have started a weblog - Notes From a Small Island, at <A href="http://smallislandnotes.blogspot.com/">http://smallislandnotes.blogspot.com/</A> about the island, Austronesian languages and customs, etc.</div>  <div><BR>My website at <A href="http://www.coconutstudio.com">www.coconutstudio.com</A> is about the island and its people,  coastal early humans, fishing, coconuts, bananas and whatever took my fancy at the time.odology and findings. </div>