When did the human population size start increasing?

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1865-1874

  Wall, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Przeworski, Molly ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033870688     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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