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Genetic evidence on origin and dispersal of human populations speaking languages of the Nostratic macrofamily.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 May 1993
Barbujani G, Pilastro A
Abstract excerpt
Contemporary patterns of allele frequencies allow inferences on past evolutionary processes. L.L. CavalliSforza [(1988) Munibe 6, 129-137] and C. Renfrew [(1991) Cambridge Archaeol. J. 1, 3-23] proposed that neolithic farmers from the Near East propagated a group of related ancestral languages, from which three or four linguistic families developed. Here we show that genetic variation among Indo-European,...
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