Cultural and climatic changes shape the evolutionary history of the Uralic languages

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1244-1253

  Honkola, T ^a   Vesakoski, O ^a   Korhonen, K ^b   Lehtinen, J ^b   Syrjanen K ^c   Wahlberg, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian phylogenetics; Climate change; Court Jester model; Divergence time estimates; Finno Ugric languages; Language evolution; Language lineage change; Red Queen model; Relaxed clock model; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; LINGUISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURE; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84879198513     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12107     Document Type: Article

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