Publication Date:
2006-08-12
Description:
The pattern of dispersal of biologically and behaviorally modern human populations from their African origins to the rest of the occupied world between approximately 60,000 and 40,000 years ago is at present a topic of lively debate, centering principally on the issue of single versus multiple dispersals. Here I argue that the archaeological and genetic evidence points to a single successful dispersal event, which took genetically and culturally modern populations fairly rapidly across southern and southeastern Asia into Australasia, and with only a secondary and later dispersal into Europe.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mellars, Paul -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Aug 11;313(5788):796-800.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK. pam59@cam.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16902130" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa
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*Archaeology
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Asia
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Australia
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Chromosomes, Human, Y
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Continental Population Groups/genetics/*history
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DNA, Mitochondrial
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*Emigration and Immigration
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Europe
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Founder Effect
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Genetics, Population
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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Population Dynamics
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Time
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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