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Cultural Selection and Genetic Diversity in Matrilineal Whales
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Low diversities of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have recently been found in four species of matrilineal whale. No satisfactory explanation for this apparent anomaly has been previously suggested. Culture seems to be an important part of the lives of matrilineal whales. The selection of matrilineally transmitted cultural traits, upon which neutral mtDNA alleles “hitchhike,” has the potential to strongly reduce genetic variation. Thus, in contrast to other nonhuman mammals, culture may be an important evolutionary force for the matrilineal whales.
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“cultural selection operating at the group level61,62 has been invoked to explain the phenomenon”
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“In whales, species with matrilineal organization such as Orcas, Pilot and Sperm whales have reduced mitochondrial diversity.”
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“The social mechanisms we describe in our hypothesis may have caused co-transmission of Y-chromosomes in social groups with developments in social structure after the Neolithic, causing an episode of massively increased gene-culture hitchhiking61 that affected only Y-chromosomes, which then ended with the emergence of complex societies.”
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- Authors
- Whitehead, H.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1998-11-27
- Volume
- 282
- Issue
- 5394
- Pages
- 1708-1711
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- 1095-9203
- Cited by
- 171
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
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