A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1265-1272

  Creanza, Nicole ^a   Ruhlen, Merritt ^a   Pemberton, Trevor J ^b   Rosenberg, Noah A ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a   Ramachandrand, Sohini ^c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Human migration; Languages; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922311459     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424033112     Document Type: Article

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