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Bayesian inferences suggest that Amazon Yunga Natives diverged from Andeans less than 5000 ybp: implications for South American prehistory.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 Sept 2014
Scliar Marilia O, Gouveia Mateus H, Benazzo Andrea, Ghirotto Silvia, Fagundes Nelson J R, Leal Thiago P, Magalhães Wagner C S, Pereira Latife, Rodrigues Maira R, Soares-Souza Giordano B, Cabrera Lilia, Berg Douglas E, Gilman Robert H, Bertorelle Giorgio, Tarazona-Santos Eduardo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Archaeology reports millenary cultural contacts between Peruvian Coast-Andes and the Amazon Yunga, a rainforest transitional region between Andes and Lower Amazonia. To clarify the relationships between cultural and biological evolution of these populations, in particular between Amazon Yungas and Andeans, we used DNA-sequence data, a model-based Bayesian approach and several statistical validations...
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