China, 132; agriculture in, 97, 99,
124:
arrival
of
modern
humans in,
62,
170:
DNA
research in, 69:
genetic heterogeneity in,
29; impe-
rial, 6: languages of, 140, 141,
146-47,171,172:
trade
between
Europe
and, 100-101
chromosomes, 19,34-,67,76:
see
also
X chromosomes. Y
chromosomes
chronology, genetic,
130-32
Chukchi languages, 140
classHlcation, usefulness of,
27-29
climate: 113,
lIS:
adaptive reactions
to, 11-12, 116: anthropometric
characteristics and, 65, 66: food
production and, 97
cloning, 13
Coerdoux (Jesuit priest), 166
cognates, 138
colonization, 54: global,
by
modem
humans,
61~3:
language and,
117
Columbus, Christopher, 43, 106
computers,
206-7
concerted cultural transmission, 184.
187,199
Congo-Saharan languages, 168
continents,
genetic
distances
between, 37-38, 52--53
Cook. Captain James, 126
Copernicus (Leopardi),
3-5
Cosenza, University of, 113
craniometric data.
65
Cretan civilization, 120
critical periods, 191-94
CrO-Magnons, 141-42
cultural transmission, 101-3,
179r-207: biological adaptation
and, 175-79: critical periOds in,
191-94: examples of, 187-91:
lan-
guage and, 150, 168, 174, 194-205:
modes of, 1
~7
Daic languages, 140
Dante, 3,
25-26
Darwin, Charles,
11,27,36,40,57,
1~8
Dausset, Jean, 69
Daza people, 122
demic diffusion,
101-3: genetic
demonstration of,
104-13: lan-
guage and, 113-24, 165
demographic
expanSions, see expan-
sions
dendrochronology, 130
Dene-Caucasian languages, 141, 142,
149, 157, 158
Dene-Sino-Caucasian languages,
171
deOxyribonucleic acid, see
DNA
DHPLC,l56
diasporas. see expansions
diseases: genetic, 81, 83, 116, 154,
191-92: infectious, 43, 48,
50,106,
126, 179, 181-82
distance: genetic,
see genetic dis-
tance: geographic
..
23-25: isolation
by,
196-98
Divine Comedy, The (Dante),
25-26
D-loop,77-78
218
DNA, 19,51, 56, 88, 91, lOS: analysiS
of
variation in, 17-18; consensus
sequence of, 139: drift and, 64:
fossil, 34, 58:
and
genetiC dating,
131, 138: immortalization process
for producing,
~:
mitochon-
drial,
see mitochondrial DNA:
mutations in. see mutation;
nucleotide sequences of,
67~8:
polymorphisms
in,.ee
polymor-
phisms: racial differences and, 9:
repetitive,
82'-85: tracking migra-
tions through study of, 126
Dravidian languages, 140, 143, 152,
157,15~2