11:7 See Gen. 1:26–27 for a discussion of the plural language “Let us” and the oneness of God. (See also Gen. 1:1.) 11:8 Such a scattering of the human race would produce a biological founder effect. When a new population is founded by groups isolated from the larger genetic population, the new population loses some of its genetic variation. As a result the two populations may be distinctively different, both genetically and phenotypically. Thus, diversity of language groups led to diversity of phenotype