Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia
Recent arguments connecting Na-Dene languages of North America with Yeniseian languages of Siberia have been used to assert proof for the origin of Native Americans in central or western Asia. We apply phylogenetic methods to test support for this hypothesis against an alternative hypothesis that Ye...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3951421 2023-05-15T18:49:28+02:00 Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia Sicoli, Mark A. Holton, Gary 2014-03-12 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951421 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24621925 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091722 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951421 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24621925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091722 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2014 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091722 2014-03-16T01:49:23Z Recent arguments connecting Na-Dene languages of North America with Yeniseian languages of Siberia have been used to assert proof for the origin of Native Americans in central or western Asia. We apply phylogenetic methods to test support for this hypothesis against an alternative hypothesis that Yeniseian represents a back-migration to Asia from a Beringian ancestral population. We coded a linguistic dataset of typological features and used neighbor-joining network algorithms and Bayesian model comparison based on Bayes factors to test the fit between the data and the linguistic phylogenies modeling two dispersal hypotheses. Our results support that a Dene-Yeniseian connection more likely represents radiation out of Beringia with back-migration into central Asia than a migration from central or western Asia to North America. Text Beringia Siberia PubMed Central (PMC) PLoS ONE 9 3 e91722 |
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Recent arguments connecting Na-Dene languages of North America with Yeniseian languages of Siberia have been used to assert proof for the origin of Native Americans in central or western Asia. We apply phylogenetic methods to test support for this hypothesis against an alternative hypothesis that Yeniseian represents a back-migration to Asia from a Beringian ancestral population. We coded a linguistic dataset of typological features and used neighbor-joining network algorithms and Bayesian model comparison based on Bayes factors to test the fit between the data and the linguistic phylogenies modeling two dispersal hypotheses. Our results support that a Dene-Yeniseian connection more likely represents radiation out of Beringia with back-migration into central Asia than a migration from central or western Asia to North America. |
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Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia |
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Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia |
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Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia |
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