Kinship, marriage, and the genetics of past human dispersals

Human Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 159-179

  Bentley, R Alexander ^a,b   Layton, Robert H ^a   Tehrani, Jamshid ^a,b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonization; Demic diffusion; Ethnography; Human dispersal; Intermarriage; Kinship; Migration pattern; MtDNA distribution; Spread of agriculture; Wave of advance model; Y chromosome distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649113959     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.081.0304     Document Type: Article

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