On the estimation of ancestral population sizes of modern humans

Genetical Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-116

  Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 0030741747     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001667239700270X     Document Type: Article

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