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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"population continuity"”.
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Dental morphology and variation across holocene Khoesan people of Southern Africa
Dental analyses of the Holocene Khoesan populations of southern Africa can provide insight into the biological evolution of an anthropologically important people. There have been many studies of dental variation in Holocene populations of Europe and the Americas, but few of African populations. …
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Gene flow and population differentiation in two species of goodeid fishes (Cyprinidontiformes: Goodeidae)
The role of gene flow in population differentiation was examined by electrophoretic analysis of populations of two species of goodeid fishes, Goodea atripinnis and Chapalichthys encaustus, from lakes and streams on the Mesa Central of Mexico. Microgeographic differentiation was observed among …
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Ancient DNA from pre-Columbian South America
… investigate demographic and historical events of populations in the continent with the added bonus of having a direct and temporal perspective. This thesis aims to explore human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity from a large number of pre-Columbian samples in a diachronic transect through time …
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Continuity and change : a biological history of Ancient Egypt.
… variation, and the second to the history of population movements along the Nile. The emergence of Egyptian civilisation was preceded by the introduction of agriculture in the Nile Valley. The emergence of the First Dynasty was a major development in the political and sociocultural …
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Human population history and its interplay with natural selection
… thesis, I aimed to refine our knowledge on human population history using ancient genomes, and then used a climate-informed, spatially explicit framework to explore the interplay between complex demographies and selection. I first analysed a high-coverage genome from Upper Palaeolithic Romania …