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Genetic and archaeological perspectives on the initial modern human colonization of southern Asia by Mellars, Paul, Gori, Kevin C., Carr, Martin, Soares, Pedro A., Richards, Martin B.

“…It has been argued recently that the initial dispersal of anatomically modern humans from Africa to southern Asia occurred before the volcanic “supereruption”…”
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The first modern human dispersals across Africa by Rito, Teresa, Richards, Martin B, Fernandes, Verónica, Alshamali, Farida, Cerny, Viktor, Pereira, Luísa, Soares, Pedro

“…The emergence of more refined chronologies for climate change and archaeology in prehistoric Africa, and for the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA),…”
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Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock by Soares, Pedro, Ermini, Luca, Thomson, Noel, Mormina, Maru, Rito, Teresa, Röhl, Arne, Salas, Antonio, Oppenheimer, Stephen, Macaulay, Vincent, Richards, Martin B.

“…There is currently no calibration available for the whole human mtDNA genome, incorporating both coding and control regions. Furthermore, as several authors…”
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The wiley-blackwell companion to the sociology of families by Treas, Judith, Treas, Judith, Scott, Jacqueline, Richards, Martin

“…Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a…”
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Rectifying long-standing misconceptions about the ρ statistic for molecular dating by Macaulay, Vincent, Soares, Pedro, Richards, Martin B.

“…When divided by a given mutation rate, the ρ (rho) statistic provides a simple estimator of the age of a clade within a phylogenetic tree by averaging the…”
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Palaeogenomics: Mitogenomes and Migrations in Europe’s Past by Richards, Martin B., Soares, Pedro, Torroni, Antonio

“…The latest in a series of transformative studies of DNA from prehistoric Europeans focuses on mitochondrial DNA, bringing fresh surprises and filling in…”
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Rectifying long-standing misconceptions about the [rho] statistic for molecular dating by Macaulay, Vincent, Soares, Pedro, Richards, Martin B

“…When divided by a given mutation rate, the [rho] (rho) statistic provides a simple estimator of the age of a clade within a phylogenetic tree by averaging the…”
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Have we seen the geneticisation of society? Expectations and evidence by Weiner, Kate, Martin, Paul, Richards, Martin, Tutton, Richard

“…Abby Lippman's geneticisation thesis, of the early 1990s, argued and anticipated that with the rise of genetics, increasing areas of social and health related…”
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Open sharing of genomic data: Who does it and why? by Haeusermann, Tobias, Greshake, Bastian, Blasimme, Alessandro, Irdam, Darja, Richards, Martin, Vayena, Effy

“…We explored the characteristics and motivations of people who, having obtained their genetic or genomic data from Direct-To-Consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT)…”
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Mitogenomes from two uncommon haplogroups mark late glacial/postglacial expansions from the near east and neolithic dispersals within Europe by Olivieri, Anna, Pala, Maria, Gandini, Francesca, Hooshiar Kashani, Baharak, Perego, Ugo A, Woodward, Scott R, Grugni, Viola, Battaglia, Vincenza, Semino, Ornella, Achilli, Alessandro, Richards, Martin B, Torroni, Antonio

“…The current human mitochondrial (mtDNA) phylogeny does not equally represent all human populations but is biased in favour of representatives originally from…”
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A dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration by Rito, Teresa S, Vieira, Daniel, Silva, Marina, Conde-Sousa, Eduardo, Pereira, Luísa, Mellars, Paul, Richards, Martin B., Soares, Pedro

“…Africa was the birth-place of Homo sapiens and has the earliest evidence for symbolic behaviour and complex technologies. The best-attested early flowering of…”
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Mitochondrial DNA Signals of Late Glacial Recolonization of Europe from Near Eastern Refugia by Pala, Maria, Olivieri, Anna, Achilli, Alessandro, Accetturo, Matteo, Metspalu, Ene, Reidla, Maere, Tamm, Erika, Karmin, Monika, Reisberg, Tuuli, Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar, Perego, Ugo A., Carossa, Valeria, Gandini, Francesca, Pereira, Joana B., Soares, Pedro, Angerhofer, Norman, Rychkov, Sergei, Al-Zahery, Nadia, Carelli, Valerio, Sanati, Mohammad Hossein, Houshmand, Massoud, Hatina, Jiři, Macaulay, Vincent, Pereira, Luísa, Woodward, Scott R., Davies, William, Gamble, Clive, Baird, Douglas, Semino, Ornella, Villems, Richard, Torroni, Antonio, Richards, Martin B.

“…Human populations, along with those of many other species, are thought to have contracted into a number of refuge areas at the height of the last Ice Age…”
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The Arabian Cradle: Mitochondrial Relicts of the First Steps along the Southern Route out of Africa by Fernandes, Verónica, Alshamali, Farida, Alves, Marco, Costa, Marta D., Pereira, Joana B., Silva, Nuno M., Cherni, Lotfi, Harich, Nourdin, Cerny, Viktor, Soares, Pedro, Richards, Martin B., Pereira, Luísa

“…A major unanswered question regarding the dispersal of modern humans around the world concerns the geographical site of the first human steps outside of…”
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Genetic stratigraphy of key demographic events in Arabia by Fernandes, Verónica, Triska, Petr, Pereira, Joana B, Alshamali, Farida, Rito, Teresa, Machado, Alison, Fajkošová, Zuzana, Cavadas, Bruno, Černý, Viktor, Soares, Pedro, Richards, Martin B, Pereira, Luísa

“…At the crossroads between Africa and Eurasia, Arabia is necessarily a melting pot, its peoples enriched by successive gene flow over the generations…”
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The Archaeogenetics of Europe by Soares, Pedro, Achilli, Alessandro, Semino, Ornella, Davies, William, Macaulay, Vincent, Bandelt, Hans-Jürgen, Torroni, Antonio, Richards, Martin B.

“…A new timescale has recently been established for human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages, making mtDNA at present the most informative genetic marker system…”
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The case for the continuing use of the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence (rCRS) and the standardization of notation in human mitochondrial DNA studies by Bandelt, Hans-Jürgen, Kloss-Brandstätter, Anita, Richards, Martin B, Yao, Yong-Gang, Logan, Ian

“…Since the determination in 1981 of the sequence of the human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome, the Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS), has been used as the…”
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Research led by participants: a new social contract for a new kind of research by Vayena, Effy, Brownsword, Roger, Edwards, Sarah Jane, Greshake, Bastian, Kahn, Jeffrey P, Ladher, Navjoyt, Montgomery, Jonathan, O'Connor, Daniel, O'Neill, Onora, Richards, Martin P, Rid, Annette, Sheehan, Mark, Wicks, Paul, Tasioulas, John

“…In recent years, there have been prominent calls for a new social contract that accords a more central role to citizens in health research. Typically, this has…”
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Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past by Olivieri, Anna, Sidore, Carlo, Achilli, Alessandro, Angius, Andrea, Posth, Cosimo, Furtwängler, Anja, Brandini, Stefania, Capodiferro, Marco Rosario, Gandini, Francesca, Zoledziewska, Magdalena, Pitzalis, Maristella, Maschio, Andrea, Busonero, Fabio, Lai, Luca, Skeates, Robin, Gradoli, Maria Giuseppina, Beckett, Jessica, Marongiu, Michele, Mazzarello, Vittorio, Marongiu, Patrizia, Rubino, Salvatore, Rito, Teresa, Macaulay, Vincent, Semino, Ornella, Pala, Maria, Abecasis, Gonçalo R, Schlessinger, David, Conde-Sousa, Eduardo, Soares, Pedro, Richards, Martin B, Cucca, Francesco, Torroni, Antonio

“…Sardinians are "outliers" in the European genetic landscape and, according to paleogenomic nuclear data, the closest to early European Neolithic farmers. To…”
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The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa by Soares, Pedro, Alshamali, Farida, Pereira, Joana B., Fernandes, Verónica, Silva, Nuno M., Afonso, Carla, Costa, Marta D., Musilová, Eliska, Macaulay, Vincent, Richards, Martin B., erný, Viktor, Pereira, Luísa

“…Although fossil remains show that anatomically modern humans dispersed out of Africa into the Near East ∼100 to 130 ka, genetic evidence from extant…”
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A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals by Silva, Marina, Oliveira, Marisa, Vieira, Daniel, Brandão, Andreia, Rito, Teresa, Pereira, Joana B, Fraser, Ross M, Hudson, Bob, Gandini, Francesca, Edwards, Ceiridwen, Pala, Maria, Koch, John, Wilson, James F, Pereira, Luísa, Richards, Martin B, Soares, Pedro

“…India is a patchwork of tribal and non-tribal populations that speak many different languages from various language families. Indo-European, spoken across…”
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