Genetic evidence on modern human dispersals in South Asia: Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA perspectives: The world through the eyes of two haploid genomes

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402055614, 2007, Pages 229-244

  Endicott, Phillip ^a   Metspalu, Mait ^b   Kivisild, Toomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andaman islander; Coalescence time; Founder lineage; Late pleistocene; Modern human

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045081488     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5562-5_10     Document Type: Chapter

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