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Rejection of a serial founder effects model of genetic and linguistic coevolution.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jun 2012
Hunley Keith, Bowern Claire, Healy Meghan
Abstract excerpt
Recent genetic studies attribute the negative correlation between population genetic diversity and distance from Africa to a serial founder effects (SFE) evolutionary process. A recent linguistic study concluded that a similar decay in phoneme inventories in human languages was also the product of the SFE process. However, the SFE process makes additional predictions for patterns of neutral genetic diversity,...
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