Ancient DNA and the rewriting of human history: Be sparing with Occam's razor

Genome Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Haber, Marc ^a   Mezzavilla, Massimo ^a,b   Xue, Yali ^a   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTORY; MIGRATION;

DNA;

DNA; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84953877342     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0866-z     Document Type: Review

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