Testing evolutionary and dispersion scenarios for the settlement of the New World

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Hubbe, Mark ^a   Neves, Walter A ^b   Harvati, Katerina ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIA; ASIAN; CALCULATION; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MELANESIA; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SAMPLE; SKULL; TIME; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; GEOGRAPHY;

CRANIA;

AMERICAS; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS;

EID: 77956203274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011105     Document Type: Article

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