Gènes et Langues

Une Longue Histoire Commune ?1

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4698151
AutoresMahé Ben Hamed (0000-0002-5486-6788, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage), Pierre Darlu (0000-0001-7282-0516, Université Paris-Sud)
Año2007
Volumen19
Número3-4
Páginas243-264
Fecha de publicación2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCahiers du Centre de recherches anthropologiques (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1297-7810 • E-ISSN: 1777-5469
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/bmsap.5363
OpenAlexW1567648077
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas52

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