Small Traditional Human Communities Sustain Genomic Diversity over Microgeographic Scales despite Linguistic Isolation

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Cox, Murray P., Hudjashov, Georgi, Sim, Andre, Savina, Olga, Karafet, Tatiana M., Sudoyo, Herawati, Lansing, John Stephen
• مؤلفون آخرون: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2017
• الموضوعات: Genetic Diversity; Linguistic Diversity
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86630; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44155

At least since the Neolithic, humans have largely lived in networks of small, traditional communities. Often socially isolated, these groups evolved distinct languages and cultures over microgeographic scales of just tens of kilometers. Population genetic theory tells us that genetic drift should ac...