Article
Genetic variation in North Africa and Eurasia: neolithic demic diffusion vs. Paleolithic colonisation.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Oct 1994
Barbujani G, Pilastro A, De Domenico S, Renfrew C
Abstract excerpt
The hypothesis that both genetic and linguistic similarities among Eurasian and North African populations are due to demic diffusion of neolithic farmers is tested against a wide database of allele frequencies. Demic diffusion of farming and languages from the Near East should have determined clines in areas defined by linguistic criteria; the alternative hypothesis of cultural transmission does not predict...
Topics
- Agriculture
- Asia
- Asia, Western
- Blood Group Antigens
- Cultural Evolution
- Europe
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Linguistics