A historical appraisal of clicks: A linguistic and genetic population perspective

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2008, Pages 93-109

  Güldemann, Tom ^a,b   Stoneking, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; Genealogical inheritance; Khoisan; Language contact; mtDNA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; GENEALOGY; GENETICS; LANGUAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA;

EID: 55349086236     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085109     Document Type: Article

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