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Kinship, marriage, and the genetics of past human dispersals.
Human biology - 1 Apr 2009
Bentley R Alexander, Layton Robert H, Tehrani Jamshid
Abstract excerpt
The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, although parsimonious and simple, is incongruous with the sex-specific nature of mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. To help interpret...
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