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countries and regions. Exploiting a natural experiment associated with the expansion of�…

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Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
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This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
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More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
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A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
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The precise genetic origins of the first Neolithic farming populations in Europe and
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This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to
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