Tracing very long-term kinship networks using SOCSIM
While each individual has 10 billion ancestors a thousand years ago, these are not distinct and in practice, the number of distinct ancestors is much smaller. A female ('mitochondrial Eve') and a male ancestor ('Y-chromosome Adam') of all humans certainly existed, possibly about...
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Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2004-05-01
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Series: | Demographic Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol10/7/ |