Did a discrete event 200,000-100,000 years ago produce modern humans?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-126

  Weaver, Timothy D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Anatomical modernity; Modern human origins; Molecular genetics; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MODERNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84863534437     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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