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Differential contribution of indigenous men and women to the formation of an urban population in the Amazon region as revealed by mtDNA and Y-DNA.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Jun 1999
Batista dos Santos S E, Rodrigues J D, Ribeiro-dos-Santos A K, Zago M A
Abstract excerpt
The human populations of the Brazilian Amazon were formed by interethnic crosses between Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians. The relative contribution of men and women of different ethnic groups was not homogeneous, since the social policies of the first three centuries of Brazilian colonization encouraged mating between European men and indigenous women and, later on, African women. In order to test this model...
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