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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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2004-05-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol10/7/