Exploration into if the phylogenetic relationships among non-Pama-Nyungan languages is mirrored by their speakers' genomic phylogenetic relationships, to test the likelihood of multiple migrations into Australia before European arrival
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University, Griffith
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2021
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This project aims to test the likelihood of multiple migrations into Australia before European arrival and determine if the phylogenetic relationships among non-Pama-Nyungan languages is mirrored by their speakers' genomic phylogenetic relationships. The non-Pama-Nyungan First People of Australia speak an extraordinary number and diversity of Aboriginal languages, but the origins of these languages and the genomic diversity of the people who speak them are only now starting to be understood.This project aims to test the likelihood of multiple migrations into Australia before European arrival and determine if the phylogenetic relationships among non-Pama-Nyungan languages is mirrored by their speakers' genomic phylogenetic relationships. The non-Pama-Nyungan First People of Australia speak an extraordinary number and diversity of Aboriginal languages, but the origins of these languages and the genomic diversity of the people who speak them are only now starting to be understood.
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ARC
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LP160100594
DP170101313
DP140101405
DP110102635
LP120200144
LP140100387
LP130100748
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP140101405, DP110102635, LP120200144, LP140100387, and LP130100748). J.L.W. was supported by the Australian Government, the Environmental Futures Research Institute, and the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution with a PhD scholarship. A.-S.M. is supported by the European Research Council (starting grant 679330) and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Biological Adaptation
Languages
Genomes
History