Problematic use of Greenberg's linguistic classification of the Americas in studies of Native American genetic variation [2]

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 519-522

  Bolnick, Deborah A ^a   Shook, Beth A ^a   Campbell, Lyle ^b,c   Goddard, Ives ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LETTER; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4143063864     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423452     Document Type: Letter

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