Rejection of a serial founder effects model of genetic and linguistic coevolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1736, 2012, Pages 2281-2288

  Hunley, Keith ^a   Bowern, Claire ^b   Healy, Meghan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Historical linguistics; Serial founder effects

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; CORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE; SAMPLING;

AFRICA;

EID: 84859970182     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2296     Document Type: Article

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