Nonleptokurtic Marriage Distances on Colonsay and Jura

Marriage distance (the most likely ground transportation distance between spouse birth places) indicates the pattern of human gene flow over space, & hence the magnitude of the gene pool; it remains one of the prime determinants of genetic structure in human populations. Marriage distances are u...

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description Marriage distance (the most likely ground transportation distance between spouse birth places) indicates the pattern of human gene flow over space, & hence the magnitude of the gene pool; it remains one of the prime determinants of genetic structure in human populations. Marriage distances are usually leptokurtic distributions in tribal, provincial, historical, ethnic, & Ur populations. Marriage distances derived from a demographic, genealogical, & medical survey of the 1977 populations on the islands of Colonsay (127 persons) & Jura (211 persons), the Scottish Inner Hebrides, show nonleptokurtic patterns. Distributions of marriage distances for insular populations are often isotropic because spouses come from all adjacent islands; Colonsay & Jura, however, show orientation in marriage distance from the mainland. The secondary mode of each distribution represents exogamous spouses from the Glasgow region of western Scotland; the transportation & communication networks to Colonsay & Jura originate in Glasgow. Both 1977 insular marriage distances reflect "economic opportunity afforded by available technology & transportation routes" over the highly discontinuous topography of western Scotland. 2 Figures, 19 References. AA.
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Transportation
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