Bayesian phylogeography of the arawak expansion in lowland south america

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1718, 2011, Pages 2562-2567

  Walker, Robert S ^a   Ribeiro, Lincoln A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Universidade Estadual de Goia s GICLI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian languages and cultures; Ancient histories; Phylogenetic trees; Population expansions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RECONSTRUCTION;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BAYES THEOREM; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; VOCABULARY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79960753473     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2579     Document Type: Article

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