The first modern human dispersals across Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Rito, Teresa ^a   Richards, Martin B ^b   Fernandes, Verónica ^a,c   Alshamali, Farida ^d   Cerny, Viktor ^e,f   Pereira, Luísa ^a,g   Soares, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Dubai eGovernment Dubai Police   (United Arab Emirates)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f Institute for Advanced Study   (France)

^g University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION SIZE; RELICT SPECIES;

AFRICA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84893421368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080031     Document Type: Article

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