| Title | Autosomal Resequence Data Reveal Late Stone Age Signals of Population Expansion in Sub-Saharan African Foraging and Farming Populations |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2009 |
| Authors | Cox, MP, Morales, DA, Woerner, AE, Sozanski, J, Wall, JD, Hammer, MF |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 4 |
| Pagination | e6366+ |
| Date Published | jul |
| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| Keywords | africa, demography, expansion, import-2010-07-12, Late Pleistocene, South Africa |
| Abstract | A major unanswered question in the evolution of Homo sapiens is when anatomically modern human populations began to expand: was demographic growth associated with the invention of particular technologies or behavioral innovations by hunter-gatherers in the Late Pleistocene, or with the acquisition of farming in the Neolithic? |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006366 |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0006366 |
| Citation Key | Cox:2009 |
Autosomal Resequence Data Reveal Late Stone Age Signals of Population Expansion in Sub-Saharan African Foraging and Farming Populations
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