Archaeogenetics - Towards a 'New Synthesis'?

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Renfrew, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MIGRATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 76749131509     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.056     Document Type: Editorial

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