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    This was somewhat interesting, though you need a membership to sign in and view the entire article, the abstract is free. If you are attending university or graduate school you can probably use your library pincode to view it in some form. Geographical proximity and ethnolinguistic affiliation influence folktale development and similarities.




    Proc. R. Soc. B 7 April 2013 vol. 280 no. 1756
    doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.3065

    Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe

    Robert M. Ross et al.

    Despite a burgeoning science of cultural evolution, relatively little work has focused on the population structure of human cultural variation. By contrast, studies in human population genetics use a suite of tools to quantify and analyse spatial and temporal patterns of genetic variation within and between populations. Human genetic diversity can be explained largely as a result of migration and drift giving rise to gradual genetic clines, together with some discontinuities arising from geographical and cultural barriers to gene flow. Here, we adapt theory and methods from population genetics to quantify the influence of geography and ethnolinguistic boundaries on the distribution of 700 variants of a folktale in 31 European ethnolinguistic populations. We find that geographical distance and ethnolinguistic affiliation exert significant independent effects on folktale diversity and that variation between populations supports a clustering concordant with European geography. This pattern of geographical clines and clusters parallels the pattern of human genetic diversity in Europe, although the effects of geographical distance and ethnolinguistic boundaries are stronger for folktales than genes. Our findings highlight the importance of geography and population boundaries in models of human cultural variation and point to key similarities and differences between evolutionary processes operating on human genes and culture.

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    Interesting. It's clear Russia is more Scandinavian in culture than Slavic in some ways.
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    Indeed. Giving some credence to old theories there... especially with the position of Finno-Ugrian in the chart as well..
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    Hmmm... Why is Denmark in a different cluster from other Nordic countries? Surprising. Icelandic overlap with Celtics is in line with history, I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.KnowItAll View Post
    Hmmm... Why is Denmark in a different cluster from other Nordic countries? Surprising. Icelandic overlap with Celtics is in line with history, I guess.
    If you consider the that it clusters with English, it makes some sense ( English homeland in the Danemark, Danish invaded and over ran the English and replaced their folklore- this is the problem Tolkien was faced with). Now, how Latvian clusters with the others, I am not clear on them...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anglojew View Post
    Interesting. It's clear Russia is more Scandinavian in culture than Slavic in some ways.
    Russia had an important and more prominent (East) Nordid racial element in the past. Even today there are more than ten million Nordids in Russia by some estimates. Diluted with time however. The commonly found North Pontids have Nordid admixture.

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