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Richards, M., Bandelt, HJ., Kivisild, T., Oppenheimer, S. (2006). A Model for the Dispersal of Modern Humans out of Africa. In: Bandelt, HJ., Macaulay, V., Richards, M. (eds) Human Mitochondrial DNA and the Evolution of Homo sapiens . Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31789-9_10
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