| 要旨トップ | 目次 | 日本生態学会第67回全国大会 (2020年3月、名古屋) 講演要旨
ESJ67 Abstract


一般講演(口頭発表) E02-05  (Oral presentation)

Prediction of habitat area of wild animals from their names in various languages in the world

*Takeshi OBAYASHI, Kazunori YAMADA, Akiko NAGANO(Tohoku Univ)

The advancement of genome sequencing technologies makes it possible to precisely detect genomic variations among different ethnic groups. The population genomic data uncovers genomic adaptation against not only atmospheric conditions such as temperature and oxygen concentration but also a society-level behavior or culture such as milk consumption and alcohol consumption. The study of associations between genomic variation and human culture, however, suffers from the lack of comprehensive documentation of local cultural information. For automatic reconstruction of environmental conditions associated with local culture, we focused on vocabulary in various languages in the world, because vocabulary used in a particular society reflects its natural and cultural environments, although globalization of each culture dilutes information of its geometric origin. As a case study, we investigated wild animal's name and its habitat area. We found that both of word length and word variation are substantially correlated with habitat area of wild animals, suggesting the potential to predict the geometric origin of a word and to reconstruct local cultural environment.


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