Re: [tied] Re: Sardinian.

Your founder effect sounds a bit "classy". Any current information on the
political organization of Sardinia initially? Tribe? Bigman?
Laissez-faire?

Gerry

> > > As for the Sardinian genetic pool, well, this is an island, and
> > islands, especially isolated islands, tend to be genetically
> > homogeneous. It's the founder effect. The few people who get their
> > first will reproduce, fill all the available space, and perpetuate
> > their genetic group. Such groups do not take part in the genetic
> > mixing you get on a mainland. I gather that the Sardinian gene pool
> > is
> > quite distant from the rest of the peoples surrounding it in Europe
> > and Africa.
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> > Yes Mark you are totally correct with the founder effect. It has
> > been
> > demonstrated elsewhere (particularly in the Americas). There is also
> > a "founder effect" operating in the "out of Africa" hypothesis too.
> >
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> It should be borne in mind that the Romans conducted a particularly savage
> punitive expedition in Sardinia in 177BC, when it was claimed that 80,000
> Sardinians were killed or captured, and the Roman slave markets were

glutted

> with cheap Sardinian slaves.
> So maybe there was a genetic bottleneck and this homogeneity only stems

from

> this time. Or has C-S taken this into account?
> It seems that following this disaster for the Sardinians, the remaining
> natives adopted Latin so completely that in the modern Romance of Sardinia
> the surviving elements of pre-Roman speech are far less than in, say,

French

> or Spanish.
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> Cheers
> Dennis
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