Practice question · True or false
Relocation diffusion can leave the origin area with none of the trait left.
Hints
- How does the trait travel?
- Inside the people carrying it.
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True
Why
True. The trait moves with the migrants rather than spreading outward from a persisting source, so emigration can empty the origin entirely, as with languages that survive only in diaspora. Expansion diffusion, by contrast, always leaves the origin with the trait it spread.
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