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A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Nov 2022
Barbieri Chiara, Blasi Damián E, Arango-Isaza Epifanía, Sotiropoulos Alexandros G, Hammarström Harald, Wichmann Søren, Greenhill Simon J, Gray Russell D, Forkel Robert, Bickel Balthasar, Shimizu Kentaro K
Abstract excerpt
Human history is written in both our genes and our languages. The extent to which our biological and linguistic histories are congruent has been the subject of considerable debate, with clear examples of both matches and mismatches. To disentangle the patterns of demographic and cultural transmission, we need a global systematic assessment of matches and mismatches. Here, we assemble a genomic database (GeLaTo,...
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