Northern Africa could also have housed the source population for living humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 28, 2011, Pages

  Hublin, Jean Jacques ^a   Klein, Richard G ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA DETERMINATION; FOSSIL HUMAN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUNTER GATHERER; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LETTER; NORTH AFRICA; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; STONE AGE;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS;

EID: 79961002003     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105710108     Document Type: Letter

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