Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set.

Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set.

The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved a major cultural innovation that has spread rapidly over most of the globe in the last ten millennia. In sub-Saharan Africa, hunter-gatherers have begun to shift toward an agriculture-based lifestyle over the last 5,000 years. Only a few...

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Main Authors: Etienne Patin, Guillaume Laval, Luis B Barreiro, Antonio Salas, Ornella Semino, Silvana Santachiara-Benerecetti, Kenneth K Kidd, Judith R Kidd, Lolke Van der Veen, Jean-Marie Hombert, Antoine Gessain, Alain Froment, Serge Bahuchet, Evelyne Heyer, Lluís Quintana-Murci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2661362?pdf=render

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