Article: Genetic variation in the population of Ibiza (Spain): Genetic structure, geography, and language

Island populations have been of great fascination to population geneticists and biological anthropologists because these reproductively isolated and often small human aggregates offer an opportunity to investigate the effects of stochastic processes and unique historical events. For example, the research on the population of Tristan da Cunha by Roberts (1968) yielded considerable insight into the evolutionary effects of unique historical events on subsequent generations. Similarly, the influence of geography on the genetic structure of the Aland Islands was revealed using island populations (Mielke et al. 1982). More recently, Crawford et al. (1995) demonstrated the effects of the ...

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