التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Rejection of a serial founder effects model of genetic and linguistic coevolution. |
| المؤلفون: |
Keith, Hunley, Claire, Bowern, Meghan, Healy |
| المصدر: |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; 6/ 7/2012, Vol. 279 Issue 1736, p2281-2288, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
COEVOLUTION, POPULATION genetics, BIODIVERSITY, PHONEME (Linguistics), PREDICTION models, MICROSATELLITE repeats |
| مستخلص: |
Recent genetic studies attribute the negative correlation between population genetic diversity and distance from Africa to a serial founder effects (SFE) evolutionary process. A recent linguistic study concluded that a similar decay in phoneme inventories in human languages was also the product of the SFE process. However, the SFE process makes additional predictions for patterns of neutral genetic diversity, both within and between groups, that have not yet been tested on phonemic data. In this study, we describe these predictions and test them on linguistic and genetic samples. The linguistic sample consists of 725 widespread languages, which together contain 908 distinct phonemes. The genetic sample consists of 614 autosomal microsatellite loci in 100 widespread populations. All aspects of the genetic pattern are consistent with the predictions of SFE. In contrast, most of the predictions of SFE are violated for the phonemic data. We show that phoneme inventories provide information about recent contacts between languages. However, because phonemes change rapidly, they cannot provide information about more ancient evolutionary processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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