Article
Cultural diversification promotes rapid phenotypic evolution in Xavánte Indians.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Jan 2012
Hünemeier Tábita, Gómez-Valdés Jorge, Ballesteros-Romero Mónica, de Azevedo Soledad, Martínez-Abadías Neus, Esparza Mireia, Sjøvold Torstein, Bonatto Sandro L, Salzano Francisco Mauro, Bortolini Maria Cátira, González-José Rolando
Abstract excerpt
Shifts in social structure and cultural practices can potentially promote unusual combinations of allele frequencies that drive the evolution of genetic and phenotypic novelties during human evolution. These cultural practices act in combination with geographical and linguistic barriers and can promote faster evolutionary changes shaped by gene-culture interactions. However, specific cases indicative of this...
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