title: Human dispersal and divergence.
abstract: Dispersal, mate exchange and behavioral innovations leading to cultural dominance and replacement have obscured some of the relationships between major linguistic groups and the biological characteristics of their speakers. Recent phylogenetic reconstructions based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes have resulted in a series of hypotheses about the spread of modern humans. These hypotheses are now being tested by linguistic reconstruction. Genes, language, archaeology and geography are sometimes congruent, but new methods to assess covariation in genetic and linguistic distances are becoming necessary.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Genetics and Molecular Biology, J.A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Cann