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- Introduction
- The human genome diversity project (HGDP)
- Political difficulties in 1993-4
- The HGDP collection
- Populations included in the HGDP
- Paper obtained with the HGDP-CEPH collection
- Estimated population structure
- Explanation of the method structure
- Basic clusters of the method structure
- F. Blumenbach, the father of anthropology
- Are partitions suggested by structure useful 'races'
- Present limitations of HGDP-CEPH
- Are structure established clusters 'good' races?
- Races might be useful for medicine
- Smaller races
- Correlation of genetic and geographic distance
- Two examples of the correlation
- Drift and migration determine genetic variation
- Drift and natural selection
- Serial founder effect
- Geographic distance vs. expected heterozygosity
- Expansion from E. Africa - founder effects
- Loss of heterozygosity due to founder effect
- Coevolution of genes and languages
- The world's language families
- Families that survived with less important changes
- Linguistic families
- Genetic and linguistic trees
- Darwin's statement
- 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
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 November 14, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/CXBN4012.Export Citation (RIS)
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Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.