40,000-Year-Old Individual from Asia Provides Insight into Early Population Structure in Eurasia

Current Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 3202-3208.e9

  Yang, Melinda A ^a   Gao, Xing ^a   Theunert, Christoph ^b,c   Tong, Haowen ^a   Aximu Petri, Ayinuer ^a,c   Nickel, Birgit ^c   Slatkin, Montgomery ^b   Meyer, Matthias ^a,c   Pääbo, Svante ^a,c   Kelso, Janet ^a,c   Fu, Qiaomei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; human prehistory; population structure; Tianyuan; Upper Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL VARIATION; CHINA; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL VARIATION, POPULATION; CHINA; DNA, ANCIENT; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85031312995     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.030     Document Type: Article

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