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Population expansion in the North African late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6.
BMC evolutionary biology - 21 Dec 2010
Pereira Luísa, Silva Nuno M, Franco-Duarte Ricardo, Fernandes Verónica, Pereira Joana B, Costa Marta D, Martins Haidé, Soares Pedro, Behar Doron M, Richards Martin B, Macaulay Vincent
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BACKGROUND: The archaeology of North Africa remains enigmatic, with questions of population continuity versus discontinuity taking centre-stage. Debates have focused on population transitions between the bearers of the Middle Palaeolithic Aterian industry and the later Upper Palaeolithic populations of the Maghreb, as well as between the late Pleistocene and Holocene. RESULTS: Improved resolution of the...
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