Genetic and linguistic affinities between human populations in Eurasia and West Africa

Human Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 331-344

  Nettle, Daniel ^b   Harriss, Louise ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Africa; Allele frequencies; Asia; Europe; Human population genetics; Language

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE EAST; POPULATION GENETICS; SEDINTISM;

EID: 0141652060     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2003.0048     Document Type: Article

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