Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

Nature

Volumn 541, Issue 7637, 2017, Pages 302-310

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,b   Akey, Joshua M ^c   Jakobsson, Mattias ^d   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^e   Tishkoff, Sarah ^f   Willerslev, Eske ^b,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; HOMINID; INBREEDING; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ASIA; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

AFRICA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AFRICA; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85018226075     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature21347     Document Type: Review

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