My favourite bit of this is the comment at the bottom of the page that just says "doubt it". So glad scientific discourse is alive and well.
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I'm glad, too. This sort of scepticism is one of the pillars of science. Like, just because it seems solid (it does, for me) it doesn't mean that it's true.
A factor not mentioned by either the research nor the article is that [f v] sound considerably sharper than [ɸ β], so there are contrastive reasons to shift the fricatives from bilabial to labiodental if the effort necessary doesn't make them too convoluted to pronounce.