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Jenni
Santaharju
PostDoctoral Researcher, Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian languages
Human diversity

Areas of expertise

Evolutionary ecology
Language evolution
Genetic evolution
Speciation
Social linguistics
Finnish dialects
Uralic languages
Helsinki Finnish
Quantitative methods
Speaker populations
Population genetics
Phylogenetics
Phylogeography
Landscape studies
Spatial methods

Biography

I am an evolutionary biologist fascinated by genetic, linguistic and cultural diversity. My interests concern
- What has caused the areal variation that we can see today in human populations?
- What has driven or inhibited populations differentiation or contacts?
- What does the contemporary variation tell us about the human past?