Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Maize genetic diversity is largely unstructured by human ethnolinguistic diversity in its center of origin
Samantha J. Snodgrass, Forrest Li, Sowmya Mambakkam…·Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The paper quantifies anthropogenic effects on maize genetic diversity in the Americas using genotyping, human genomic data, and linguistic maps, finding weak genome-wide effects but localized language-associated loci.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.02.703385