Bantu language trees reflect the spread of farming across sub-Saharan Africa: A maximum-parsimony analysis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1493, 2002, Pages 793-799

  Holden, Clare Janaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bantu; Linguistic evolution; Maximum parsimony

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENEALOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 53149118259     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.1955     Document Type: Article

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