In a rebuttal to the Padilla-Iglesias et al. (2024) paper published in the Nature Human Behaviour journal, the BantUGent scholars Hilde Gunnink, Sara Pacchiarotti, Guy Kouarata, Paulin Baraka Bose and Koen Bostoen refute the claim that ten Central African Hunter-Gatherer communities share a history of genetic, cultural, and linguistic evolution, that started many millennia before the first food producers settled in the Congo basin. Padilla-Iglesias et al. (2024) base this claim on comparative evidence from musical instruments, foraging tools, specialized vocabulary and genome-wide data. Hilde Gunnink and colleagues consider the linguistic evidence for this hypothesis unsubstantiated because (1) the historical-linguistic methodology of Padilla-Iglesias et al. (2024) is flawed, and (2) much relevant data were overlooked. As Nature Human Behaviour has not published yet their rebuttal titled “Central African Hunter-Gatherer Music Lexicon Does Not Predate the Bantu Expansion” (submitted on June 26, 2024), Hilde Gunnink and colleagues published a pre-print on SocArXiv, the open archive of the social sciences.