Human languages form a distinct and largely independent class of cultural replicators with
behaviour and fidelity that can rival that of genes. Parallels between biological and linguistic …

Debates about human prehistory often center on the role that population expansions play in
sha** biological and cultural diversity. Hypotheses on the origin of the Austronesian …

As indicated early by Charles Darwin, languages behave and change very much like living
species. They display high diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear …

Phylogenetic methods have revolutionised evolutionary biology and have recently been
applied to studies of linguistic and cultural evolution. However, the basic comparative data …

The expansion of Bantu languages represents one of the most momentous events in the
history of Africa. While it is well accepted that Bantu languages spread from their homeland …

Current portrayals of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) over the past 5,000 years are dominated
by discussion of the Austronesian “farming/language dispersal,” with associated linguistic …

The early history of island Southeast Asia is often characterized as the story of two major
population dispersals: the initial Paleolithic colonization of Sahul∼ 45 ka ago and the much …

We present, to our knowledge, the first quantitative evidence that music and genes may
have coevolved by demonstrating significant correlations between traditional group-level …

Recent studies investigating the relationship between crop genetic diversity and human
cultural diversity patterns showed that seed exchanges are embedded in farmers' social …

Language evolution is traditionally described in terms of family trees with ancestral
languages splitting into descendent languages. However, it has long been recognized that …