Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7008, 2004, Pages 562-566

  Rohde, Douglas L T ^a   Olson, Stevee ^b   Chang, Joseph T ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Yak University ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

GENEALOGICAL ANCESTORS; MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTOR (MRCA); POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; GENEALOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MATING; MATING TYPE; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGENOTE; THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MIGRATION; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; VERTEBRATA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4944261948     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02842     Document Type: Article

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