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1. Introduction
2. The human genome diversity project (HGDP)
3. Political difficulties in 1993-4
4. The HGDP collection
5. Populations included in the HGDP
6. Paper obtained with the HGDP-CEPH collection
7. Estimated population structure
8. Explanation of the method structure
9. Basic clusters of the method structure
10. F. Blumenbach, the father of anthropology
11. Are partitions suggested by structure useful 'races'
12. Present limitations of HGDP-CEPH
13. Are structure established clusters 'good' races?
14. Races might be useful for medicine
15. Smaller races
16. Correlation of genetic and geographic distance
17. Two examples of the correlation
18. Drift and migration determine genetic variation
19. Drift and natural selection
20. Serial founder effect
21. Geographic distance vs. expected heterozygosity
22. Expansion from E. Africa - founder effects
23. Loss of heterozygosity due to founder effect
24. Coevolution of genes and languages
25. The world's language families
26. Families that survived with less important changes
27. Linguistic families
28. Genetic and linguistic trees
29. Darwin's statement
30. The complete tree of language evolution

Topics Covered

• The human genome diversity project (HGDP)
• Method structure
• Limitations of HGDP-CEPH
• Are the clusters established by structure "good" races?
• Correlation between genetic and geographic distance
• Decrease of genetic diversity in the human expansion as serial founder effect
• Coevolution of genes and languages
• Linguistic families: correlation of the genetic and linguistic trees
• Darwin's statement
• The complete tree of language evolution

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Series:

• Human Population Genetics I

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics

Talk Citation

Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. (2007, October 1). History and geography of human genetic diversity III [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 15, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/CXBN4012.
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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on February 25, 2021

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.