[language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] Genome data helps reveal human population shifts]

[H. Mark Hubey]

<><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><>


If this is true, then all European languages ultimately go
back to a single language and spread from that.


--------------------------------------------------------
Posted at 8:47 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Genome data helps reveal human population shifts
By DAVID L. CHANDLER
c.2001 The Boston Globe

Most people of northern European ancestry are probably descended from a
tiny
prehistoric population of as few as 50 people, according to researchers
at the
Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass.

In a finding that could also have important implications for the
discovery of
genetic diseases, researchers used a new technique made possible by the
human
genome project to determine that Northern Europeans went through a
so-called
"population bottleneck" less than 53,000 years ago.

While other research has shown signs of such a bottleneck in human
prehistory,
those were based on weak evidence, said David Reich, lead author of a
paper on
the new research being published in the current journal Nature. "This
really
demonstrates strongly that such an event occurred," he said.

Full text:
http://www.charlotte.com/topnews/pub/human.htm

---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Copyrights/"Fair Use":  http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things
such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education
about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's
important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express
your own works -- only the ability to express other people's.
Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are
important considerations.

You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu