Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 207-216

  Scerri, Eleanor M L ^a   Drake, Nick A ^b   Jennings, Richard ^c   Groucutt, Huw S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human evolution; Middle Stone Age; Modern human dispersals; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); POPULATION STATISTICS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MODERN HUMAN DISPERSALS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTI-PROXY EVIDENCES; PALAEOCLIMATE; STONE AGE; TECHNOLOGICAL CLUSTERS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOME; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; HUMAN EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STONE AGE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HOMINID; MESOLITHIC; PALEOHYDROLOGY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; EURASIA; SAHARA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84907359549     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.019     Document Type: Article

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