Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission

• Main Authors: Lansing, J. Stephen, Abundo, Cheryl, Jacobs, Guy S., Guillot, Elsa G., Thurner, Stefan, Downey, Sean S., Chew, Lock Yue, Bhattacharya, Tanmoy, Chung, Ning Ning, Sudoyo, Herawati, Cox, Murray P.
• 其他作者: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2020
• 主題: Science::Physics; Language; Kinship
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137685
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Languages are transmitted through channels created by kinship systems. Given sufficient time, these kinship channels can change the genetic and linguistic structure of populations. In traditional societies of eastern Indonesia, finely resolved cophylogenies of languages and genes reveal persistent m...