The late pleistocene colonization of South America: An interdisciplinary perspective

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 540-549

  Rothhammer, Francisco ^a,b   Dillehay, Tom D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Colonization of South America; Multidisciplinary approach; Provisional peopling model

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ANTIQUITY; ARCHEOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CHRONOLOGY; CLOVIS FIRST SINGLE ORIGIN MODEL; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DUAL MIGRATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ICE SHEET; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SKELETON; SOUTH AMERICA; TECHNOLOGY; TRIPARTITE MODEL; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARCHAEOLOGY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 68549122899     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00537.x     Document Type: Review

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