A serial founder effect model for human settlement out of Africa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1655, 2009, Pages 291-300

  Deshpande, Omkar ^a   Batzoglou, Serafim ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^b   Cavalli Sforza, L Luca ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Human migration; Out of Africa; Serial founder effect; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; FOUNDER EFFECT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MIGRATION; MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRITORIALITY;

AFRICA;

EID: 58149252215     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0750     Document Type: Article

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