A new approach to studying modern human origins: Hypothesis testing with coalescence time distributions

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 202-219

  Ruvolo, Maryellen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMINOIDEA; HOMO;

HLA ANTIGEN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OPSIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TIME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HLA ANTIGENS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPSIN; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PRIMATES; PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030077046     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0014     Document Type: Article

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