Comment on "DNA from pre-clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America"

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5937, 2009, Pages

  Poinar, Hendrik ^a   Fiedel, Stuart ^b   King, Christine E ^a   Devault, Alison M ^a   Bos, Kirsti ^a   Kuch, Melanie ^a   Debruyne, Regis ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Louis Berger Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON 14; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTIFACT; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NOTE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL; CANIDAE; FECES; FOSSIL; GENETICS; RADIOMETRY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME;

ANIMALS; CANIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FECES; FOSSILS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; OREGON; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TIME;

EID: 67650456297     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168182     Document Type: Note

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