Registration for a live webinar on 'The role of T cells in COVID from asymptomatic to severe outcomes' is now open.
See webinar detailsWe noted you are experiencing viewing problems
-
Check with your IT department that JWPlatform, JWPlayer and Amazon AWS & CloudFront are not being blocked by your network. The relevant domains are *.jwplatform.com, *.jwpsrv.com, *.jwpcdn.com, jwpltx.com, jwpsrv.a.ssl.fastly.net, *.amazonaws.com and *.cloudfront.net. The relevant ports are 80 and 443.
-
Check the following talk links to see which ones work correctly:
Auto Mode
HTTP Progressive Download Send us your results from the above test links at access@hstalks.com and we will contact you with further advice on troubleshooting your viewing problems. -
No luck yet? More tips for troubleshooting viewing issues
-
Contact HST Support access@hstalks.com
-
Please review our troubleshooting guide for tips and advice on resolving your viewing problems.
-
For additional help, please don't hesitate to contact HST support access@hstalks.com
We hope you have enjoyed this limited-length demo
This is a limited length demo talk; you may
login or
review methods of
obtaining more access.
- Human Population Genetics: An Overview
-
1. Modern human origins
- Prof. Richard Klein
-
2. History and geography of human genetic diversity I
- Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
-
3. History and geography of human genetic diversity II
- Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
-
4. Cultural evolution
- Prof. Marcus Feldman
-
5. The human genomes
- Prof. Gil McVean
-
6. Human population structure
- Prof. Noah Rosenberg
-
7. The signature of local adaptations in human polymorphism data
- Dr. Anna Di Rienzo
- The Human Genome Project
-
8. The HapMap project
- Prof. Andrew Clark
-
9. Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history
- Prof. Yoshihito Niimura
-
10. Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA variations
- Prof. Toomas Kivisild
-
11. Ethical issues in human population genetics
- Prof. Henry Greely
- Important Phenotypic Phenomena
-
12. Evolution: how genes and their variation got here
- Prof. Kenneth Weiss
-
13. The genetic component to diabetes
- Dr. Nancy Cox
-
14. Genetics of breast and ovarian cancer
- Prof. Jeffrey Weitzel
-
15. Colorectal cancer and the rare variant hypothesis
- Prof. Sir Walter Bodmer
-
16. Genetic diseases in the Jewish population
- Prof. Neil Risch
-
17. The genetics of French Canadians
- Dr. Bernard Brais
- Dr. Bertrand Desjardins
- Prof. Damian Labuda
- Dr. Marc St-Hilaire
- Prof. Marc Tremblay
- Prof. Helene Vezina
- Historical and Geographical Genetic Variation
-
18. Human genetic variation of Africa
- Prof. Joanna Mountain
-
19. Genetics of Pakistani populations in an Asian and global context
- Prof. S. Qasim Mehdi
- Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
-
20. The genetics of breast and ovarian cancer
- Dr. Piri Welcsh
-
21. Historical and geographical genetic variation: Europe
- Prof. Antonio Torroni
-
22. Linguistic evolution
- Dr. Merritt Ruhlen
-
23. Human microsatellite and minisatellite DNA polymorphisms
- Dr. James Weber
-
24. Human population genetics: lifespan
- Prof. Kaare Christensen
-
25. History and geography of human genetic diversity III
- Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
-
26. Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history
- Prof. Yoshihito Niimura
- Prof. Masatoshi Nei
-
27. Natural selection and sequence polymorphism
- Prof. Austin Hughes
-
28. Human Y chromosome phylogenetics and phylogeography
- Prof. Peter Underhill
-
29. The peopling of the Americas: new insights from genetic studies
- Dr. Theodore Schurr
Printable Handouts
Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Sir William Jones - picture
- Sir William Jones, 1786
- An Indo-European paradigm
- The Indo-Hittite family (1)
- The Indo-Hittite family (2)
- The word "hand" in different languages
- A more complex example
- Possible explanations for linguistic similarities
- Classifying languges by basic vocabulary (1)
- Classifying languges by basic vocabulary (2)
- The Indo-Hittite family (3)
- Italian linquist - Alfredo Trombetti
- Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (1)
- Distribution of the pronouns M 'I' - T 'you'
- The Eurasiatic family
- The Uralic-Yukaghir family
- The Altaic family
- The Eskimo-Aleut family
- Eurasiatic grammatical cognates
- Eurasiatic lexical cognates
- African language families
- The Afro-Asiatic family
- The Nilo-Saharan family
- The Niger-Kordofanian family
- The Khoisan family
- The Dene-Caucasian family
- Alfredo Trombetti in 1923 and 1925
- Dene-Caucasian cognates
- The Na-Dene family
- Yeniseian-Na-Dene cognates
- Language in the Americas
- Language families in the Americas
- Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (2)
- Distribution of the pronouns N 'I' - M 'you'
- Ameren T'ana-T'ina-T'una ('child-son-daughter')
- Ameren T'ina ('brother, son')
- Ameren T'una ('sister, daughter')
- Ameren T'ana ('child, sibling')
- The Kartvelian family
- The Dravidian family
- The Austric family
- The Indo-Pacific family
- The Australian family
- Language families of the world
- Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (3)
- Tik ('finger, one')
- Tik ('finger, one') - geographic distribution
- Pal ('two')
- Pal ('two') - geographic distribution
- Akwa ('water')
- Akwa ('water') - geographic distribution
- Genetic linguistics versus typology
- The six possible word orders
- Subject-object-verb
- Distribution of word order in Indo-Hittite
- Distribution of word order in Afro-Asiatic
- Evolution of word order - simple model
- Evolution of word order - more complex model
- Evolution of word order - full model
- The out-of-Africa migration, 50,000 BP
- The migration to the Americas, 13,500 BP
- The Ameren migration
- Final remarks - Charles Darwin (1859)
Topics Covered
- Discovery of comparative linguistics
- The Indo-Hittite family
- Fundamentals of linguistic taxonomy
- Alfredo Trombetti
- The Eurasiatic language family
- African language families
- The Dene-Caucasian family
- The Amerind language family
- Monogenesis
- Origin and evolution of word order
- Linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence for human migrations
Links
Series:
Categories:
Therapeutic Areas:
Talk Citation
Ruhlen, M. (2007, October 1). Linguistic evolution [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 27, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/305/.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
Financial Disclosures
- Dr. Merritt Ruhlen has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.