Linguistic phylogenies support back-migration from Beringia to Asia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Sicoli, Mark A ^a   Holton, Gary ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MIGRATION; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIA;

EID: 84898744060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091722     Document Type: Article

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