The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity /
Galor, Oded.
The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity / Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel C. Wainstock. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w31274 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31274. .
May 2023.
Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral traditions across the world, we find that ethnic groups further away from East Africa along the migratory routes have lower folkloric diversity. This pattern is consistent with the compression of genetic, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation of differential cultural diversity and economic development across the world.
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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity / Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel C. Wainstock. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w31274 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31274. .
May 2023.
Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral traditions across the world, we find that ethnic groups further away from East Africa along the migratory routes have lower folkloric diversity. This pattern is consistent with the compression of genetic, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation of differential cultural diversity and economic development across the world.
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