Oceanic barriers promote language diversification in the Japanese Islands

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1905-1912

  Lee, S ^a   Hasegawa, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allopatric diversification; Geographic isolation; Language evolution

Indexed keywords

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAYES THEOREM; GENETICS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAYES THEOREM; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84906794511     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12442     Document Type: Article

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