Reassessment of global gene-language coevolution

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

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1919-1920

  Hunley, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMERICAN INDIAN; AUSTRONESIAN PEOPLE; CLASSIFICATION; COEVOLUTION; CONSENSUS; DYING; GENE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NORTH AMERICA; NOTE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; GENETIC VARIATION; LINGUISTICS;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84923197414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1425000112     Document Type: Note

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