A question of scale: Human migrations writ large and small

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cox, Murray P ^a   Hammer, Michael F ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FLOW; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE FLOW; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955145106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-98     Document Type: Note

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