Article: Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation across linguistic and geographic boundaries in Italy

Linguistic barriers between human populations may not only reflect but also determine evolutionary processes (Sokal et al. 1990; Barbujani 1991). Rates of gene frequency change across language boundaries are often significantly higher than those at random locations (Sokal et al. 1988, 1989; Barbujani and Sokal 1990; Bertranpetit and Cavalli-Sforza 1991; Barbujani et al. 1994); linguistically related groups often have been shown to resemble each other genetically (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1988, 1992; Barbujani and Pilastro 1993), even when they are separated by large spatial distances (Excoffier et al. 1991; O'Rourke et al. 1992). The simplest interpretation of these findings is that language ...

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