America Past, America Present: Genes and Languages in the Americas and BeyondColin Renfrew McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2000 - 175 Seiten Aspects of the prehistory of the Americas currently remain little understood, with suggested dates for the first human colonization varying widely between 40,000 and 14,000 years ago. In this volume, molecular geneticists and historical linguists debate the evidence for the first peopling of the Americas, and for the subsequent emergence of the remarkable genetic and linguistic diversity still seen among Native Americans to this day. Part I offers a general consideration of the theme of language distribution and genetic variation in human populations with emphasis on the population-specific polymorphism issue. In parts II and III linguistic variation in Native American populations and their accompanying molecular genetic variability are discussed by leading specialists. In the final part unanswered questions in historical linguistics are debated, including the macrofamily problem with particular reference to the postulated but contoversial Amerind family. |
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... origin of the individual who left those traces . When a genetic variant ( an allele ) is found exclusively in a restricted area , it may be used as a footprint of a single and common origin of all individuals carrying that variant and ...
... origin of the individual who left those traces . When a genetic variant ( an allele ) is found exclusively in a restricted area , it may be used as a footprint of a single and common origin of all individuals carrying that variant and ...
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... origin ; stochastic processes are complex enough to have been able to produce a more complex pattern than a single unidimensional cline . The as- cription of the origin and diffusion of a mutation to a given historical time is quite ...
... origin ; stochastic processes are complex enough to have been able to produce a more complex pattern than a single unidimensional cline . The as- cription of the origin and diffusion of a mutation to a given historical time is quite ...
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... origin of Native Americans . These questions were , and in some cases still remain , the following : a . When were the Americas first colonized by humans ? b . C. Do all modern Native Americans derive from a single ancestral Asian popu ...
... origin of Native Americans . These questions were , and in some cases still remain , the following : a . When were the Americas first colonized by humans ? b . C. Do all modern Native Americans derive from a single ancestral Asian popu ...
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emergence | 17 |
The genetic origins of Old Testament priests | 31 |
their reliability | 47 |
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