Human microevolution and the Atlantic slave trade a case study from s(a)over-tildeo tome

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2008

Autores

Margarida Coelho (Autor) Outra; Cintia Alves Valentina Coia (Autor) Outra; Donata Luiselli (Autor) Outra; Antonella Useli (Autor) Outra; Tjerk Hagemeijer (Autor) Outra; Antonio Amorim (Autor) FCUP; Giovanni Destro Bisol (Autor) Outra; Jorge Rocha (Autor) FCUP

Revista

Título: Current Anthropology

Vol. 49

Páginas: 134-143

ISSN: 0011-3204

Editora: University of Chicago Press

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 15 Citações

Scopus - 15 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências sociais > Sociologia

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-004-1P4

DOI: 10.1086/524762

Abstract (EN): Populations derived from the Atlantic slaving process provide unique opportunities for studying key evolutionary determinants of current patterns of human cultural and biological variation. Examination of the genetic patterning of the small plantation island of S (a) over tildeo Tome ( Gulf of Guinea) using a study design that avoids the use of preconceived ethno-linguistic labels to define genetic sampling units reveals that, despite the fact that maximum distance between any two sampled sites is less than 50 km, the island has an unusual level of genetic structure that is mainly caused by the grouping of Angolar Creole-speakers in a separate cluster carrying a distinctive imprint of genetic drift. This pattern may have been shaped by a kin-structured founder effect associated with the flight of a patrilineal clan of rebel slaves who established a remarkably successful maroon community in the vicinity of the plantation complex. The observation that population-discontinuous jumps may occur even under social conditions of massive coercive amalgamation provides an illustration of the way in which human clusters emerge and eventually shape the genetic background of human populations.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 10