{"id":3781,"date":"2015-01-19T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2015-01-20T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:07:02","slug":"language-evolves-faster-in-isolated-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/language-evolves-faster-in-isolated-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Language evolves faster in isolated populations<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changes in genetics and language follow similar patterns as human population disperse, however language is able to spontaneously change in isolated populations.<\/p>\n<p>Both genetics and language change over time as small mutations in genes or phonemes, like the &#8216;k&#8217; sound in &#8216;cat&#8217; or &#8216;skill&#8217;, accumulate or are lost. Additionally both language and genetics change by interbreeding or borrowing phonemes from nearby populations.<\/p>\n<p>However, in isolated populations, language is more likely to change, while inbreeding causes genetic diversity in the same groups to decline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/PCUgUDk5Di\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>January\u00a019<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Nicole Creanza,\u00a0Stanford University, California, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n<h4>Merritt Ruhlen,\u00a0Stanford University, California, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n<h4>Trevor J. Pemberton, University of Manitoba, Manitoba<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in genetics and language follow similar patterns as human population disperse, however language is able to spontaneously change in isolated populations. Both genetics and language change over time as small mutations in genes or phonemes, like the &#8216;k&#8217; sound in &#8216;cat&#8217; or &#8216;skill&#8217;, accumulate or are lost. Additionally both language and genetics change by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1851,1531,215,917,909,1722,1724,847,2358],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-communication","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-language","tag-linguistics","tag-manitoba-en","tag-university-of-manitoba"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-YZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}