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Parallel Trajectories of Genetic and Linguistic Admixture in a Genetically Admixed Creole Population.
Current biology : CB - 21 Aug 2017
Verdu Paul, Jewett Ethan M, Pemberton Trevor J, Rosenberg Noah A, Baptista Marlyse
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Joint analyses of genes and languages, both of which are transmitted in populations by descent with modification-genes vertically by Mendel's laws, language via combinations of vertical, oblique, and horizontal processes [1-4]-provide an informative approach for human evolutionary studies [5-10]. Although gene-language analyses have employed extensive data on individual genetic variation [11-23], their linguistic...
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