"It's a living history, told by the real survivors of the times-DNA": Anthropological genetics in the tradition of biology as applied history

Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 225-246

  Sommer, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

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