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(NAS Colloquium) Genetics and the Origin of Species From Darwin to Molecular Biology 60 Years After Dobzhansky (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Genes, people, and languages
Pages 29-34

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... It is true romaTk~Ic that the union of Nostr~tic plus Eurasiatic plus Queried includes practical 1bc Bole major cluster of the genetic tree, which collects 10getber C~casoids, Nomad ~o~loids, Ad Scrims. Another superfamily present in Rublen's classification, Austric, also jogs ~pulaLons that are may same genetics.
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Key Terms

  • mutation rate
  • genetic tree
  • gene flow
  • gene replacement
  • hidden patterns

  • mutation rates
  • geographic study
  • languages spoken
  • linguistic data
  • genetic distance

  • east asia
  • northern chinese
  • southern chinese
  • plus eurasiatic
  • similar conditions

  • linguistic distance
  • social classes
  • spoken locally
  • stored dnas
  • absolute genetic

  • people speaking
  • conditions creating
  • using microsatellites
  • inevitable linguistic
  • creating correlations

  • inevitably genetic
  • coastal route
  • major cluster
  • continued gene
  • molecular techniques


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