Backward bottlenecks: Ancient teosinte/maize selection

Current Anthropology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-104

  Webster, David L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/658400     Document Type: Article

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