Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6027, 2011, Pages 346-349

  Atkinson, Quentin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RANGE EXPANSION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHONETICS; POPULATION DENSITY;

AFRICA;

EID: 79954590736     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1199295     Document Type: Article

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