Sex‐specific demographic behaviours that shape human genomic variation

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“This suggests that the link between status and fitness detected in modern populations (e.g.44-46), also existed in ancient populations.”

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“Previous studies have demonstrated that kinship systems, and particularly residence and descent rules, leave on their own a profound signature on uniparental genetic diversity without any need for violent competition22,23.”

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“For instance, patrilocality, a residence rule whereby a married couple settles in the house of the husband or his father, has been shown to reduce local Y-chromosome diversity compared to mtDNA, because men remain in their native village while women migrate between villages with their mtDNA upon marriage.”

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“Our observation that, in addition to the effects of lineal fission type, the variance in reproductive success between groups (and its transmission to newly formed groups after a fission event) leads to a marked loss of diversity on the Y chromosome is consistent with previous studies showing that cultural transmission of reproductive success at the individual level leads to a reduction in”

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“This result is consistent with previous studies indicating that polygyny alone is expected to have a reduced effect on genetic diversity22,87, and would probably not be sufficient on its own to account for the male effective population size bottleneck reported by Karmin et al.1.”