Recessive hereditary deafness, assortative mating, and persistence of a sign language

DOI10.1016/0040-5809(91)90029-FzbMATH Open0725.92028WikidataQ47317779 ScholiaQ47317779MaRDI QIDQ2277403FDOQ2277403

Authors Marcus W. Feldman, Kenichi Aoki

Publication date 1991

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

persistencevertical transmissionassortative matinghearingcultural transmission of sign languageone-locus genetic variation for deafness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99) Linguistics (91F20)

Recommendations

• Assortative mating and grandparental transmission facilitate the persistence of a sign language
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• Classes of communication and the conditions for their evolution
• Vertical and oblique cultural transmission fluctuating in time and in space

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3390587 (Why is no real title available?)
• The evolution of continuous variation. II: Complex transmission and assortative mating

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• Assortative mating and grandparental transmission facilitate the persistence of a sign language

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