Classification: Biological Sciences: Genetics; Social Sciences: Psychology Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size genes, ASPM and Microcephalin Dan Dediu an

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Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size genes, ASPM and Microcephalin Dan Dediu and D. Robert Ladd† School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, U

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• Genes
• Knowledge
• Language
• Tone
• Biology
• Sprachbund
• Linguistics
• Origin of language
• Science
• ASPM
• Central nervous system

TECHNICAL COMMENT Comment on ‘‘Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of ASPM, a Brain Size Determinant in Homo sapiens’’ and ‘‘Microcephalin, a Gene Regulating Brain Size, Continues to Evolve Adaptively in Humans’’

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• Population genetics
• Evolutionary biology
• ASPM
• Central nervous system
• Genes
• Haplotype
• Adaptive evolution in the human genome
• Genetics
• Biology
• Philosophy of biology

Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brain size gene microcephalin introgressed into Homo sapiens from an archaic Homo lineage Patrick D. Evans*†‡, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov*†‡, Eric J. Vallender*†‡, Richard R.

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• Philosophy of biology
• Haplogroup
• Coalescent theory
• Linkage disequilibrium
• G factor
• Haplotype
• Mutation
• Genetics
• Population genetics
• Biology

Am. J. Hum. Genet. 63:541–546, 1998 Primary Autosomal Recessive Microcephaly (MCPH1) Maps to

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• Human evolution
• Microcephalin
• Genetic linkage
• Chromosome 8
• Microcephaly
• Genetic heterogeneity
• Phenylketonuria
• Genetic disorders
• Microcephaly lymphoedema chorioretinal dysplasia
• Genetics
• Classical genetics
• Genes