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Recent origin and cultural reversion of a hunter-gatherer group.
PLoS biology - 1 Mar 2005
Oota Hiroki, Pakendorf Brigitte, Weiss Gunter, von Haeseler Arndt, Pookajorn Surin, Settheetham-Ishida Wannapa, Tiwawech Danai, Ishida Takafumi, Stoneking Mark
Abstract excerpt
Contemporary hunter-gatherer groups are often thought to serve as models of an ancient lifestyle that was typical of human populations prior to the development of agriculture. Patterns of genetic variation in hunter-gatherer groups such as the Kung and African Pygmies are consistent with this view, as they exhibit low genetic diversity coupled with high frequencies of divergent mtDNA types not found in...
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