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A formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in native Central and South America

dc.contributor.authorHunley, Keith L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCabana, G. S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMerriwether, D. A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLong, Jeffrey C.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-20T18:06:45Z
dc.date.available2008-09-08T14:25:14Zen_US
dc.date.issued2007-04en_US
dc.identifier.citationHunley, K.L.; Cabana, G.S.; Merriwether, D.A.; Long, J.C. (2007). "A formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in native Central and South America." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132(4): 622-631. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55923>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0002-9483en_US
dc.identifier.issn1096-8644en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55923
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=17205551&dopt=citationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates a mechanism of linguistic and genetic coevolution in Native Central and South America. This mechanism proposes that a process of population fissions, expansions into new territories, and isolation of ancestral and descendant groups will produce congruent language and gene trees. To evaluate this population fissions mechanism, we collected published mtDNA sequences for 1,381 individuals from 17 Native Central and South American populations. We then tested the hypothesis that three well-known language classifications also represented the genetic structure of these populations. We rejected the hypothesis for each language classification. Our tests revealed linguistic and genetic correspondence in several shallow branches common to each classification, but no linguistic and genetic correspondence in the deeper branches contained in two of the language classifications. We discuss the possible causes for the lack of congruence between linguistic and genetic structure in the region, and describe alternative mechanisms of linguistic and genetic correspondence and their predictions. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.en_US
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dc.publisherWiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Companyen_US
dc.subject.otherLife and Medical Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.otherAnthropologyen_US
dc.titleA formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in native Central and South Americaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherDepartment of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106 ; Department of Anthropology, MSC01-1040, Anthropology, 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherDepartment of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherDepartment of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902en_US
dc.identifier.pmid17205551en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55923/1/20542_ftp.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20542en_US
dc.identifier.sourceAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropologyen_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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