Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 798-801

  Edwards, A W F ^a  

^a GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE MISPAIRING; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 0042591658     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10315     Document Type: Review

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