40,000-Year-Old Individual from Asia Provides Insight into Early Population Structure in Eurasia

@article{Yang201740000YearOldIF,
  title={40,000-Year-Old Individual from Asia Provides Insight into Early Population Structure in Eurasia},
  author={Melinda A. Yang and Xing Gao and Christoph Theunert and Hao-wen Tong and Ayinuer Aximu-Petri and Birgit Nickel and Montgomery Slatkin and Matthias Meyer and Svante P{\"a}{\"a}bo and Janet Kelso and Qiaomei Fu},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2017},
  volume={27},
  pages={3202-3208.e9}
}
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