From genes to numbers: Effective population sizes in human evolution

Recent Advances in Palaeodemography: Data, Techniques, Patterns

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-30

  Hawks, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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