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ReviewHuman molecular genetics2021

The genomic prehistory of peoples speaking Khoisan languages.

Brigitte Pakendorf, Mark Stoneking

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Review in Human molecular genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Linguistic capacity was present in theFrontiers in psychology · 2025
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  4. Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Brigitte PakendorfDynamique du Langage, UMR5596, CNRS & Université de Lyon, 14 avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France.
Mark StonekingDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peoples speaking so-called Khoisan languages-that is, indigenous languages of southern Africa that do not belong to the Bantu family-are culturally and linguistically diverse. They comprise herders, hunter-gatherers as well as groups of mixed modes of subsistence, and their languages are classified into three distinct language families. This cultural and linguistic variation is mirrored by extensive genetic diversity. We here review the recent genomics literature and discuss the genetic evidence for a formerly wider geographic spread of peoples with Khoisan-related ancestry, for the deep divergence among populations speaking Khoisan languages overlaid by more recent gene flow among these groups and for the impact of admixture with immigrant food-producers in their prehistory.

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Africa, SouthernBlack PeopleDNAGenetics, PopulationGenetic VariationGenomicsHistory, AncientHumansLanguageDNA

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PMID33075813
PMCPMC8117426

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