Article
Gene flow in the Pleistocene.
Human biology - 1 Feb 1992
Livingstone F B
Abstract excerpt
Previous estimates by Weiss and Maruyama (1976) and Rouhani (1989) of the time that an advantageous gene would take to disperse throughout hominid populations in the Pleistocene were considered to support the multiregional and single origin theories of the origin of modern humans, respectively. With the addition of some long-range gene flow, current simulations indicate that this dispersal could occur in 4000...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Emigration and Immigration
- Gene Frequency
- Hominidae
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Paleontology
- Polymorphism, Genetic