Genomic perspectives on the history and evolutionary ecology of tropical rainforest occupation by humans

Quaternary International

Volumn 448, Issue , 2017, Pages 150-157

  Perry, George H ^a   Verdu, Paul ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Human evolutionary ecology; Human population history; Hunter gatherers; Polygenic adaptation; Population admixture; Population genomics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENOMICS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84975139883     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.04.038     Document Type: Article

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