TY  - BOOK
AU  - Galor,Oded
AU  - Klemp,Marc
AU  - Wainstock,Daniel C.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - General
KW  - jelc
N1  - May 2023; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31274
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31274
ER  -