Is poverty in our genes?: A critique of Ashraf and Galor, "The 'out of Africa' hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development," American Economic Review (forthcoming)

Current Anthropology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-79

  d'Alpoim Guedes, Jade ^a   Bestor, Theodore C ^a   Carrasco, David ^a   Flad, Rowan ^a   Fosse, Ethan ^b   Herzfeld, Michael ^a   Lamberg Karlovsky, Carl C ^a   Lewis, Cecil M ^c   Liebmann, Matthew ^a   Meadow, Richard ^a   Patterson, Nick ^d   Price, Max ^a   Reiches, Meredith ^a   Richardson, Sarah ^a   Shattuck Heidorn, Heather ^a   Ur, Jason ^a   Urton, Gary ^a   Warinner, Christina ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

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EID: 84873855548     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669034     Document Type: Article

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