Bantu Expansion Shows That Habitat Alters the Route and Pace of Human Dispersals¶
Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Bostoen, K., Meade, A., Venditti, C., & Pagel, M. (2015). Bantu Expansion Shows That Habitat Alters the Route and Pace of Human Dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(43), 13296-13301.
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- Adaptive Radiation
- In historical linguistics it is the language family that radiates when speaker populations split and colonize new geographic and cultural niches — Bantu across sub-Saharan Africa, Polynesian across the Pacific.
This sourceDated phylogeny of ~400 Bantu languages reconstructing the Bantu expansion as a language-family radiation across sub-Saharan Africa as speaker populations colonized new geographic/ecological niches.
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This source supplies the Bantu half of the claim — a dated phylogeny of ~400 Bantu languages tying the expansion across sub-Saharan Africa to population movement — but it does not cover Polynesian and does not speak of 'cultural niches'.
“We use a new dated phylogeny of ∼400 Bantu languages to show that migrating Bantu-speaking populations did not expand from their ancestral homeland in a “random walk” but, rather, followed emerging savannah corridors, with rainforest habitats repeatedly imposing temporal barriers to movement.”
- In historical linguistics it is the language family that radiates when speaker populations split and colonize new geographic and cultural niches — Bantu across sub-Saharan Africa, Polynesian across the Pacific.
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