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Genetics and Language in European Populations by Sokal, Robert R.; Oden, Neal L.; Legendre, Pierre; Fortin, Marie-Josee; Kim, Junhyong; Thomson, Barbara A.; Vaudor, Alain; Harding, Rosalind M.; Barbujani, Guido is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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In this paper we use the relationships between genetics and language in European populations to infer processes that led to their current population structure. The genetic structure of populations in geographic space can be examined at different scales ranging from one fine enough to record individuals to one encompassing continents. Processes that affect genetic structure include genetic drift (i.e., gene pools of limited size; Wright 1969, p. 345; Nei 1987, p. 352) and the limited mobility of individuals within the area of study. Both processes can be safely assumed to affect all natural populations, as is apparent from the various studies in which the spatial distributions of gene frequencies have been shown to follow the patterns predicted by Morton's (Morton et al. 1971;Morton 1982) and Malecot's (1973) models of isolation by distance. In addition, spatially patterned selection and directed migration (distinct from the random dispersal of individuals underlying the isolation-by-distance model) may also cause spatial differentiation. The last two forces disturb what might otherwise be a simple relationship between genetic and geographic distance. For humans, we have ample evide

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Author

Sokal, Robert R.; Oden, Neal L.; Legendre, Pierre; Fortin, Marie-Josee; Kim, Junhyong; Thomson, Barbara A.; Vaudor, Alain; Harding, Rosalind M.; Barbujani, Guido

Publisher

University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press; JSTOR (ISSN 0003-0147)

Published

1990

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)