Towards a global phylogeny of human populations based on genetic and linguistic data
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Towards a global phylogeny of human populations based on genetic and linguistic data
Original language description
Over the past three decades, modern human origins and dispersal have been investigated using phylogenetic analyses of genetic and linguistic data. As a result, a large body of phylogenetic hypotheses is available for formal meta-analysis. Here we present a “matrix representation with parsimony” (MRP) supertree of 1,962 human populations, based on 388 genetic and linguistic phylogenies. This supertree represents a comprehensive global phylogeny of extant human populations, covering all world regions and ~100 language families (including isolates). It is in near-perfect agreement with phylogeny based on supermatrix (concatenation) analysis, showing that these conceptually different approaches to phylogenetic inference tend to produce a similar phylogenetic pattern of global human population. Although human population history is certainly not purely tree-like, there is an underlying hierarchical structure (especially at deeper levels) that can be hypothesized as phylogeny. However, the question of large-scale coevolution between genes and languages must be reassessed critically since most of the well-substantiated language families do not form genetically consistent groups. A tree-like model of human population history provides a useful tool for assessing the congruence and conflict between genetic and linguistic data and for studying cultural evolution.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-23889S" target="_blank" >GA18-23889S: Ecological and geographical determinants of modern human diversification: a phylogenetic approach on global and local scales</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Modern Human Origins and Dispersal
ISBN
978-3-935751-30-8
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
"331–359"
Number of pages of the book
360
Publisher name
Kerns Verlag
Place of publication
Tübingen
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