Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution

2009/08/13 by Phillip Endicott, Simon Y. W. Ho, Simon Y.W. Ho +2 · 9 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Calibration #Context (archaeology) #Evolutionary biology #Human evolution #Paleontology #Paleopathology and ancient diseases #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Prehistory #Statistics

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.04.006

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