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)

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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)

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• The evolution of continuous variation. II: Complex transmission and assortative mating

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