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Simulations, genetics and human prehistory

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Simulations, genetics and human prehistory / edited by Shuichi Matsumura, Peter Forster & Colin Renfrew.
Publication
Cambridge, UK : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research ; Oakville, CT, USA : Distributed by Oxbow Books, the David Brown Company, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Matsumura, Shūichi.
  • Forster, Peter, 1967-
  • Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
  • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Description
xiv, 207 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm +
Series Statement
McDonald Institute monographs
Uniform Title
McDonald Institute monographs.
Subject
  • Human population genetics > Computer simulation > Congresses
  • Population genetics > Mathematical models > Congresses
  • Evolution (Biology) > Mathematical models > Congresses
  • Evolution (Biology) > Computer simulation > Congresses
Note
  • "Published with the aid of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation."
  • Based upon a symposium held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge from July 29-Aug. 1, 2005.
  • "On CD, Simulated data sets produced by Henry Harpending for the conference workshop"--P. vi.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Out-of-Africa : where was paradise? -- What simulations tell us about complex European (pre-)histories -- Human dispersal from Asia -- Methodological challenges in ancestral inference -- Comments from archaeologists -- Experimental workshop : do the existing methods really work?.
ISBN
  • 9781902937458
  • 1902937457
OCLC
  • ocn259959883
  • SCSB-5435648
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries