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Testing isonymy with paternal and maternal lineages in the early Québec population: the impact of polyphyletism and demographic differentials.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Apr 2002
Gagnon Alain, Toupance Bruno
Abstract excerpt
Isonymy is an ingenious and useful approach to studying kinship in human populations. However, it relies on assumptions that are difficult to verify. In this study, we provided a way to assess, in the early Québec population, the impact of factors such as polyphyletism, unbalanced sex-ratio among founders, and age differentials between spouses. All data were taken from the Population Register of Early Québec,...
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