Inferring past demography using spatially explicit population genetic models

Human Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 141-157

  Ray, Nicolas ^a,b   Excoffier, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Genetic diversity; Human evolution; Introgression; Paleodemography; Population genetic models; Range expansion; SPLATCHE software; Surfing phenomena

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649083389     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.081.0303     Document Type: Article

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