Craniometric data supports demic diffusion model for the spread of agriculture into Europe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Pinhasi, Ron ^a   von Cramon Taubadel, Noreen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; DEMIC DIFFUSION MODEL; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MESOLITHIC; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; AGRICULTURE; CEPHALOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CRANIA;

AGRICULTURE; CEPHALOMETRY; EUROPE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 69849090986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006747     Document Type: Article

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