Genetic and linguistic coevolution in Northern Island Melanesia

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Hunley, Keith ^a   Dunn, Michael ^b,c   Lindström, Eva ^d   Reesink, Ger ^b   Terrill, Angela ^b   Healy, Meghan E ^a   Koki, George ^e   Friedlaender, Françoise R ^f   Friedlaender, Jonathan S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^f Independent Researcher   (United States)

^g TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MELANESIA; PREDICTION; ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; Y CHROMOSOME;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MELANESIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 55449123672     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000239     Document Type: Article

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