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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. Construction of a molecular phylogeny gave no evidence of clustering by linguistic affiliation, suggesting a relatively...
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