African Y chromosome and mtDNA divergence provides insight into the history of click languages

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 464-473

  Knight, Alec ^a   Underhill, Peter A ^a   Mortensen, Holly M ^a,c   Zhivotovsky, Lev A ^b   Lin, Alice A ^a   Henn, Brenna M ^a   Louis, Dorothy ^a   Ruhlen, Merritt ^a   Mountain, Joanna L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0037452994     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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