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Peer-reviewed articles<\/a><\/h6>\n
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Kallio, P., Mets\u00e4ranta, N. & Honkola, T<\/strong>. 2025. The language-contact landscape in the Baltics during the first millennium BC. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen<\/em>. 70: 27\u201380. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.33339\/fuf.147292<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mets\u00e4ranta, N., Milanova, V. & Honkola, T.<\/strong> 2025. \u00a0An Areal-Etymological Approach to Semantic Reconstruction of Proto-Uralic Kin Terms. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen. <\/i>70: 113\u2013174. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.33339\/fuf.146092<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nitch, A., Lummaa, V., Ketola, T., Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Vesakoski, O. & Briga, M. 2025. The spatial distribution of pertussis, but not measles or smallpox, in pre-industrial Finland matches dialects. iScience<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2025.112530<\/a><\/p>\n

Pesonen, P., Piha, M., Ahola, M., Holmqvist, E. & Honkola, T.<\/strong> 2025. Pottery, language and iron: reassessing Luukonsaari and Sirnihta Wares and their cultural context in Early Iron Age Finland. Documenta Praehistorica<\/em>. 52<\/i>: 2-27. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4312\/dp.52.4<\/a><\/p>\n

Santaharju, J., Syrj\u00e4nen, K., Honkola<\/strong>, T., Sepp\u00e4, P., Vesakoski, O. & Leino U. 2025. Data Release: Digitized Dialect Atlas of Finnish by Lauri Kettunen. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications.<\/i> 7: 3. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5617\/dhnbpub.12270<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Milanova, V., Mets\u00e4ranta, N. & Honkola, T.\u00a0<\/strong>2024. Kinship terminologies of the Circum-Baltic Area: Convergences and Structural Properties. Journal of Language Contact<\/em>. 17:<\/em> 315-358. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/19552629-bja10079<\/a><\/p>\n

Honkola, T.<\/strong>, & Jordan, F. M. 2023. Kin Term Borrowings in the World\u2019s Languages. Journal of Language Contact.<\/em> 15: 562-626. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/19552629-15030004<\/a><\/p>\n

Mets\u00e4ranta, N., Milanova, V. & Honkola, T.<\/strong> 2023. Borrowability of kinship terms in Uralic languages. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen<\/em> 68. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.33339\/fuf.120920<\/a><\/p>\n

Moilanen, U., Salmela, E. & Honkola, T.<\/strong> 2023. Families on the move? The case of Proto-Finnic speakers.<\/a> Moving northward: Professor Volker Heyd’s Festschrift as he turns 60.<\/em> Lahelma, A., Lavento, M., Mannermaa, K., Ahola, M., Holmqvist, E. & Nordqvist, K. (eds.). [Helsinki]: p. 311-329,<\/span> 19 p.<\/span> (Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland; no. 11).<\/p>\n

Passmore, S., Barth, W., Greenhill, S.J., Quinn, K., Sheard, C., Argyriou, P., Birchall, J., Bowern, C., Calladine, J., Deb, A., Diederen, A., Mets\u00e4ranta, N.P., Araujo, L.H., Schembri, R., Hickey-Hall, J., Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Mitchell, A., Poole, L., R\u00e1cz, P.M., Roberts, S.G., Ross, R.M., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Evans, N., Jordan, F. M. 2023. Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology. PLoS ONE<\/em> 18(5): e0283218. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0283218<\/a><\/p>\n

Norvik, M., Jing, Y., Dunn, M., Forkel, R., Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Klumpp, G., Kowalik, R., Metslang, H., Pajusalu, K., Piha, M., Saar, E., Saarinen, S. & Vesakoski, O. 2022. Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset. Journal of Uralic Linguistics<\/em>. 1: 4-42. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1075\/jul.00002.nor<\/a><\/p>\n

Lynch, R., Loehr, J., Lummaa, V., Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Pettay, J. & Vesakoski, O. 2022. Socio-cultural similarity with host population rather than ecological similarity predicts success and failure of human migrations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.<\/em> 289: 20212298.\u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2021.2298<\/a><\/p>\n

Syrj\u00e4nen, K.*, Maurits, L.*, Leino, U., Honkola, T.,<\/strong> Rota, J. & Vesakoski, O. 2021. Crouching TIGER, hidden structure: Exploring the nature of linguistic data using TIGER values. Journal of Language Evolution.<\/em> lzab004, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jole\/lzab004<\/a> *Shared first authorship.<\/p>\n

Rantanen, T., Tolvanen, H., Honkola, T.<\/strong>, & Vesakoski, O. 2021. A comprehensive spatial model for historical travel effort – a case study in Finland. Fennia – International Journal of Geography<\/i> 199: 61\u201388. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11143\/fennia.98357<\/a><\/p>\n

Ketola, T., Briga, M., Honkola, T.<\/strong> & Lummaa, V. 2021. Town population size and structuring into villages and households drive infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.<\/em> 288: 20210356. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2021.0356<\/a><\/p>\n

Maurits, L., de Heer, M., Honkola, T<\/strong>., Dunn, M. & Vesakoski, O. 2019. Best practices in justifying calibrations for dating language families. Journal of Language Evolution. <\/em>lzz009, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jole\/lzz009<\/a><\/p>\n

Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Syrj\u00e4nen, K., Santaharju, J. & Pajusalu, K. 2019. Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. Linguistica Uralica 55:3.\u00a0<\/em>https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3176\/lu.2019.3.01<\/a><\/p>\n

Tambets, K., Yunusbayev, B., Hudjashov, G., Ilum\u00e4e, A-M., Rootsi, S., Honkola, T.<\/strong>,Vesakoski, O., Atkinson, Q.\u00a0 et al. 2018. Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations. Genome Biology<\/em>. 19:139. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13059-018-1522-1.<\/a><\/p>\n

Honkola, T<\/strong>., Ruokolainen, K., Syrj\u00e4nen, K. J. J., Leino U, Tammi, I, Wahlberg, N. & Vesakoski, O. 2018. Evolution within a language: Environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groups. BMC Evolutionary Biology.\u00a0<\/em>18:132<\/a>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12862-018-1238-6
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Syrj\u00e4nen, K.*, Honkola, T.*<\/strong>, Lehtinen, J., Leino, A. & Vesakoski, O. 2016. Applying population genetic approaches within languages: Finnish dialects as\u00a0linguistic populations. Language Dynamics and Change. <\/em>6: 235\u2013283. DOI: 10.1163\/22105832-00602002<\/a> *Shared first authorship.<\/p>\n

Ala-Honkola, O., Laine, L., Pekkala, N., Kotiaho, J. S., Honkola, T.<\/strong> & Puurtinen, M. 2015. Males gain fitness benefits by mating with outbred females in Drosophila littoralis<\/em>: male choice for genetic quality? Ethology<\/em> 121: 577\u2013585. DOI:\u00a010.1111\/eth.12369<\/p>\n

Lehtinen, J., Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Korhonen, K., Syrj\u00e4nen, K., Wahlberg, N. & Vesakoski, O. 2014. Behind family trees: Secondary connections in Uralic language networks. Language Dynamics and Change <\/em>4: 189-221.<\/p>\n

Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Vesakoski, O., Korhonen, K., Lehtinen, J., Syrj\u00e4nen, K. & Wahlberg, N. 2013. Cultural and climatic changes shape the evolutionary history of the Uralic languages. Journal of Evolutionary Biology <\/em>26: 1244\u20131253. <\/em>DOI:\u00a010.1111\/jeb.12107.<\/p>\n

Syrj\u00e4nen, K., Honkola, T.<\/strong>, Lehtinen, J., Korhonen, K., Vesakoski, O. & Wahlberg, N. 2013. Shedding more light on language classification using basic vocabularies and phylogenetic methods: A case study of Uralic. Diachronica<\/em> 30: 323-352. DOI: 10.1075\/dia.30.3.02syr.<\/em><\/p>\n

Non-peer reviewed articles<\/strong> <\/em><\/h6>\n

Honkola, T. <\/strong>2016. Kielten makro- ja mikroevoluutio: Kielten erkaantumisen tutkiminen evoluutiobiologisista l\u00e4ht\u00f6kohdista. [Macro- and microevolution of languages: Exploring linguistic divergence with approaches from evolutionary biology]. Lectio praecursoria. Online version of the journal Viritt\u00e4j\u00e4 <\/a><\/em>1.<\/p>\n

Publications intended for general public<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n

Tambets, K., Honkola, T.<\/strong> & Metspalu, M. Whole genome-wide study reveals most Uralic-speakers have traces of recent common demographic history in their genes. On Biology Blog <\/em>24.10.2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Honkola, T.<\/strong> Using a biological framework to resolve the early stages of linguistic divergence BMC Series Blog<\/em> 6.9.2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Theses<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n

Honkola, T.<\/strong> 2016. Macro- and microevolution of languages: Exploring linguistic divergence with approaches from evolutionary biology. PhD thesis<\/a>. University of Turku, Turku.<\/p>\n

Honkola, T. <\/strong>2009. The effects of inbreeding, crossbreeding and stress on metabolic rate in Drosophila littoralis. <\/em>MSc thesis. University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4.<\/p>\n

Honkola, T<\/strong>. 2007. Takasiiven v\u00e4rityksen ja melanismikuvion periytyminen t\u00e4pl\u00e4siilik\u00e4skoiraalla (Parasemia plantaginis<\/em>). [The inheritance of hindwing color and melanin pattern in wood tiger moth males (Parasemia plantaginis<\/em>)] BSc thesis. University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4.<\/p>\n

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