Khoisan hunter-gatherers have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human demographic history

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kim, Hie Lim ^a,b   Ratan, Aakrosh ^a,c   Perry, George H ^a   Montenegro, Alvaro ^d,e   Miller, Webb ^a   Schuster, Stephan C ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COALESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUNTER-GATHERER; PALEOCLIMATE; PASTORALISM; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMAL HUNTING; CENTRAL AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; KHOISAN; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICAN; AFRICA; BLACK PERSON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84922255663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6692     Document Type: Review

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