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Evaluating the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis with genetic variation exhibited by populations in the Southwest and Mesoamerica.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Apr 2010
Kemp Brian M, González-Oliver Angélica, Malhi Ripan S, Monroe Cara, Schroeder Kari Britt, McDonough John, Rhett Gillian, Resendéz Andres, Peñaloza-Espinosa Rosenda I, Buentello-Malo Leonor, Gorodesky Clara, Smith David Glenn
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The Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis posits that prehistoric population expansions, precipitated by the innovation or early adoption of agriculture, played an important role in the uneven distribution of language families recorded across the world. In this case, the most widely spread language families today came to be distributed at the expense of those that have more restricted distributions. In the...
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