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Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set.
PLoS genetics - 1 Apr 2009
Patin Etienne, Laval Guillaume, Barreiro Luis B, Salas Antonio, Semino Ornella, Santachiara-Benerecetti Silvana, Kidd Kenneth K, Kidd Judith R, Van der Veen Lolke, Hombert Jean-Marie, Gessain Antoine, Froment Alain, Bahuchet Serge, Heyer Evelyne, Quintana-Murci Lluís
Abstract excerpt
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved a major cultural innovation that has spread rapidly over most of the globe in the last ten millennia. In sub-Saharan Africa, hunter-gatherers have begun to shift toward an agriculture-based lifestyle over the last 5,000 years. Only a few populations still base their mode of subsistence on hunting and gathering. The Pygmies are considered to be the...
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