{"id":21362,"date":"2022-12-16T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=21362"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:58:22","slug":"genetic-heritage-and-language-does-not-always-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/12\/genetic-heritage-and-language-does-not-always-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic heritage and language does not always match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the interesting outcome of a new PNAS paper (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1073\/pnas.2122084119?download=true\">pdf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gelato-org\/MatchesMismatches\/blob\/main\/AnalysisMaMi_2022_clean.R\">R<\/a>) that finds<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the farming\/language dispersal hypothesis, migrations fueled by the shift toward agriculture and animal husbandry in the Holocene have given rise to some of the largest language families identifiable today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most researchers thought that genes and language would match while the new paper shows<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the level of individual populations, we estimate more matches (matching enclaves or aligned populations) than mis- matches, but single-population mismatches are present in each continent and within each language family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The database can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/gelato.clld.org\/\">https:\/\/gelato.clld.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the interesting outcome of a new PNAS paper (pdf, R) that finds According to the farming\/language dispersal hypothesis, migrations fueled by the shift toward agriculture and animal husbandry in the Holocene have given rise to some of the largest language families identifiable today. Most researchers thought that genes and language would match while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/12\/genetic-heritage-and-language-does-not-always-match\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genetic heritage and language does not always match<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4025,143,4024],"class_list":["post-21362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-enclave","tag-genetics","tag-inbred"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21363,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions\/21363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}