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Genetic tracking of mice and other bioproxies to infer human history.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 May 2013
Jones Eleanor P, Eager Heidi M, Gabriel Sofia I, Jóhannesdóttir Fríða, Searle Jeremy B
Abstract excerpt
The long-distance movements made by humans through history are quickly erased by time but can be reconstructed by studying the genetic make-up of organisms that travelled with them. The phylogeography of the western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus), whose current widespread distribution around the world has been caused directly by the movements of (primarily) European people, has proved particularly...
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