Peopling the tibetan plateau: Insights from archaeology

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-147

  Aldenderfer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

archaeology; evolution; genetics; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHINA; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HISTORY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTITUDE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; TIBET;

EID: 79959866199     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1094     Document Type: Article

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