Secondo uno studio su Science, il numero delle lingue aumentò per gran parte dell’Olocene, prima di crollare negli ultimi millenni.

Late Holocene Maize Diversity and Cultural Remains from the Northern Neotropics: The Site of Cueva La Capilla, Venezuelan Andes

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

Linguistic structures show uneven global distributions, but it remains unknown to what extent such distributions are driven by human population his...

Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, diverged, and evolved.

When populations meet, they typically exchange genes. Their languages meet too, and such encounters can change languages. But how much do languages actually change through contact, and do these change...

A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language - Volume 7

World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

La costa settentrionale del Perù è una regione nota per il suo ricco patrimonio archeologico, ma la storia della sua popolazione è ancora poco esplorata. Un team internazionale di genetisti e linguisti ha indagato sulle radici genetiche millenarie e sulla continuità storica della regione, in un nuovo studio pubblicato su Scientific Reports di Redazione

The northern coast of Peru is a region known for its rich archaeological heritage, but its people’s history is still underexplored. An international team of geneticists and linguists investigated the ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley during the Mesolithic period

Abstract. Linguists have long described their findings in an archaeological context, while archaeologists have been interested in what language can tell th

SIBE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 7th − 11th September 2025 FERRARA (ITALY) Overview The analysis of genomic data has become increasingly feasible, even in non-model organisms, thanks to the “omics” revolution...

Dalla genetica alla linguistica, un percorso attraverso popolazioni e culture per ricostruire la storia umana: dalle lingue andine alla relazione tra DNA e identità, fino alle sfide etiche della ricerca, nella nuova intervista di "L'evoluzione non ha genere. di Carmen Troiano

The language network of the human brain has core components in the inferior frontal cortex and superior/middle temporal cortex, with left-hemispher...

Scientific Data - Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence

On January 1, 2025, the University of Zurich (UZH) created a new institute, the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE). Its mission is to deepen interdisciplinary resea...

The NCCR Evolving Language invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in population genomics to study the demography of humans and domesticated crop species related to language evolution at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich.

Analysis of the terms used for emotions across a sample of 2474 spoken languages reveals low similarity across cultures.

The NCCR Evolving Language invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in population genomics to study the demography of humans and domesticated crop species related to language evolution at th...

Since leaving Africa, human populations have gone through a series of range expansions. While the genomic signatures of these expansions are well detectable on a continental scale, the genomic consequences of small-scale expansions over shorter time spans are more challenging to disentangle. The medieval migration of the Walser people from their homeland in Southern Switzerland (Upper Valais) into other regions of the Alps is a good example of such a comparatively recent geographic and demographic expansion in humans.

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Using a battery of statistical tools, Alagöz et al. examine the genetic overlap between dyslexia and rhythm impairment and shed light on how the genome influences the neural bases of human language an...

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