The shaping of human diversity: Filters, boundaries and transitions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1698, 2016, Pages

  Mirazón Lahr, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African prehistory; Dispersals; Holocene filter; Human evolution; Human evolutionary genetics; Modern human origins

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; PREHISTORIC; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOOL USE;

AFRICA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

ARCHEOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84974733390     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0241     Document Type: Article

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