Patterns of prehistoric human mobility in Polynesia indicated by mtDNA from the Pacific rat
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Patterns of prehistoric human mobility in polynesia indicated by mtDNA from the Pacific rat.
Human settlement of Polynesia was a major event in world prehistory. Despite the vastness of the distances covered, research suggests that prehistoric Polynesian populations maintained spheres of continuing interaction for at least some period of time in some regions. A low level of genetic variation in ancestral Polynesian populations, genetic admixture (both prehistoric and post-European cont...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.25.15145