Neandertals: Not so fast

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5396, 1998, Pages 1991-

  Wolpoff, Milford H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; ARCHEOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; LETTER; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032509457     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5396.1991b     Document Type: Letter

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