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The impact of group fissions on genetic structure in Native South America and implications for human evolution.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Feb 2008
Hunley K L, Spence J E, Merriwether D A
Abstract excerpt
In a series of publications beginning in the 1960s, Neel and colleagues suggested that genetically nonrandom, or "lineal", population fissions contributed to genetic structure in ancient human groups. The authors reached this conclusion by studying the genetic consequences of village fissions among the Yanomamo, a Native South American group thought to have been relatively unaffected by European contact and,...
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