Sverker Johansson is a Swedish physicist, linguist, textbook author and university professor. He created Lsjbot, a Wikipedia bot.

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Sverker Johansson
Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	University of Lund University of Gothenburg
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, linguistics

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Johansson's book Origins of Language, Constraints of Hypotheses, and Convergence Evidence in Language and Communication Studies, published in 2005, has been reviewed by the Journal of Linguistics.^[1][2][3]

In 2012, he presented the theory that Neanderthals used language in "Essay on Neanderthal Language".^[4]