Going east: New genetic and archaeological perspectives on the modern human colonization of Eurasia

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5788, 2006, Pages 796-800

  Mellars, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

AFRICAN ORIGINS; HUMAN COLONIZATION; MULTIPLE DISPERSALS; SINGLE VERSUS MULTIPLE DISPERSALS;

REGIONAL PLANNING;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHAEOLOGY; COLONIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION; ARCHEOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES INVASION; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 33747129693     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128402     Document Type: Review

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