Study shows cultural flow may be slower than genetic divergence
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 08:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from New Zealand and Australia has found that cultural exchange in human populations sometimes occurs at a much slower rate than genetic divergence. As the group explains in their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they found that a popular folktale was slower to migrate between different groups of people, than were gene transfers.