Population continuity or replacement? A novel computer simulation approach and its application to the numic expansion (Western Great Basin, USA)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 438-447

  Cabana, Graciela S ^a   Hunley, Keith ^b   Kaestle, Frederika A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; mtDNA; Northern Paiute; Stillwater Marsh

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MODELS, GENETIC; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 40949144374     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20764     Document Type: Article

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