Gènes et Langues

Une Longue Histoire Commune ?1

Bibliographic Data

ID4698151
AuthorsMahé Ben Hamed (0000-0002-5486-6788, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage), Pierre Darlu (0000-0001-7282-0516, Université Paris-Sud)
Year2007
Volume19
Issue3-4
Pages243-264
Publication date2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers du Centre de recherches anthropologiques (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1297-7810 • E-ISSN: 1777-5469
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/bmsap.5363
OpenAlexW1567648077
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited52

This text is intended to review how the history of languages and the history of human populations were drawn in parallel and in correspondence, since the 19th century. From the methodological point of view, convergences are numerous, both linguists and population geneticists making use of the same distance methods and the same cladistic or probabilistic approaches. The validity and limits of this analogy between linguistic and genetic evolution of mankind are discussed from recent published examples. Critics are based alternately on how these methods are applied to the linguistic data by phylogeneticists, under the suspicious and critical look of some linguists, and on how the human population geneticists include linguistic classification, often much debated by linguists, within their own genetic concerns

Ethnology · Humanities · Fractal and DNA sequence analysis · Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · History · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy