Possible Signatures of Hominin Hybridization from the Early Holocene of Southwest China

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Curnoe, Darren ^a   Ji, Xueping ^b   Taçon, Paul S C ^c   Yaozheng, Ge ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Baise Nationalities Museum   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHINA; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HOMINID; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SKULL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; SKULL;

EID: 84937865282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12408     Document Type: Article

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