Introduction: Revisiting the "Negrito" hypothesis: A transdisciplinary approach to human prehistory in southeast Asia

Human Biology

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 7-20

  Endicott, Phillip ^a  

^a MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

Author keywords

Hypothesis; Negritos; Southeast asia; Transdisciplinary; Workshop

Indexed keywords

GENETIC MARKER;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85026445826     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.085.0301     Document Type: Article

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