title: The origin of the Na-Dene.
abstract: Linguistic evidence indicates that the Yeniseian family of languages, spoken in central Siberia, is most closely related to the Na-Dene family of languages spoken, for the most part, in northwestern North America. This hypothesis locates the source of one of the three migrations responsible for the peopling of the Americas.
authors.affiliation: Program in Human Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruhlen
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language