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Choose the correct order of the given sentences to form a meaningful paragraph: P. Nonetheless, the logical problem of linguistic specimen is uncannily parallel to the corresponding puzzle that arises in biology. Q. These are all metaphors, and sometimes misleading ones into the bargain. R. Languages are not organisms, however must we tend to describe them in terms of their 'birth', 'growth', 'descent', 'genetic relationship', 'death', and so on. S. This similarity was noted by Darwin in The Descent of Man when he observed that the formation of different languages and of distinct species, and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously the same.