What can we do with surnames today? An anthropologist point of view. Comment on "Surname distribution in population genetics and in statistical physics" by Paolo Rossi.

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 418-419

  Boattini, Alessio ^a   Pettener, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PHYSICS; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS;

GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; NAMES; PHYSICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84888039305     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2013.07.018     Document Type: Note

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