Natives or immigrants: Modern human origin in East Asia

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-133

  Jin, Li ^a,b,c   Su, Bing ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAR EAST; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SOUTHEAST ASIA; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAR EAST; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034330383     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35038565     Document Type: Review

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