Overview
- Focuses on language evolution in Northwestern China and adjacent regions
- Results from a four-year collaboration between two teams of geneticists and linguists in France and China
- Breaks down the barrier between human sciences and natural sciences to reconsider the diversity of languages on the basis of current research results
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hui Li, Ph.D., Professor of Human Biology at Fudan University, vice dean of Asian Institute of Humanity and Nature at Macau, council member of Chinese Association of Anthropology and Ethnology, Chinese Society of Anthropology, NSFC Excellent Youth Foundation awardee, editor of several international academic journals. His major research interest is molecular anthropology, including the origin, evolution, and adaptation of East Asians, and the genetic effects of civilization emergence and development. He has published more than 200 papers in journals including Science and Nature. His books published include Y Chromosome and Diversification of East Asians, You Who Came From Apes, Ethnic History of Greater Canton, Pictorial Flora of Fudan, Dônđäc: a language with the largest vowel inventory in the world, Our Self-Identification, The Laureates Stories of Lifetime Achievement Awards in Anthropology, Tao Te Ching: restored ancient text. He has also translated books including My Beautiful Genome and Seven Daughters of Eve.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Languages and Genes in Northwestern China and Adjacent Regions
Editors: Dan Xu, Hui Li
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4169-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4168-6Published: 12 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5068-9Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4169-3Published: 05 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 156
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historical Linguistics, Asian Languages, Human Genetics, Biological and Physical Anthropology