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A genetic method for dating ancient genomes provides a direct estimate of human generation interval in the last 45,000 years.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 May 2016
Moorjani Priya, Sankararaman Sriram, Fu Qiaomei, Przeworski Molly, Patterson Nick, Reich David
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The study of human evolution has been revolutionized by inferences from ancient DNA analyses. Key to these studies is the reliable estimation of the age of ancient specimens. High-resolution age estimates can often be obtained using radiocarbon dating, and, while precise and powerful, this method has some biases, making it of interest to directly use genetic data to infer a date for samples that have been...
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