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Genetic Diversity in the Lesser Antilles and Its Implications for the Settlement of the Caribbean Basin.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Benn Torres Jada, Vilar Miguel G, Torres Gabriel A, Gaieski Jill B, Bharath Hernandez Ricardo, Browne Zoila E, Stevenson Marlon, Walters Wendell, Schurr Theodore G
Abstract excerpt
Historical discourses about the Caribbean often chronicle West African and European influence to the general neglect of indigenous people's contributions to the contemporary region. Consequently, demographic histories of Caribbean people prior to and after European contact are not well understood. Although archeological evidence suggests that the Lesser Antilles were populated in a series of northward and eastern...
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