Is Homo sapiens polytypic? Human taxonomic diversity and its implications

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 195-201

  Woodley, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 70450235100     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.07.046     Document Type: Article

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