Article
Genetic and linguistic differentiation in the Americas.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Nov 1993
Ward R H, Redd A, Valencia D, Frazier B, Pääbo S
Abstract excerpt
The relationship between linguistic differentiation and evolutionary affinities was evaluated in three tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Two tribes (Nuu-Chah-Nulth and Bella Coola) speak Amerind languages, while the language of the third (Haida) belongs to a different linguistic phylum--Na-Dene. C...
Topics
- Alaska
- Base Sequence
- British Columbia
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Indians, North American
- Likelihood Functions
- Linguistics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid