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Discussion: Recent Common Ancestors of all Present-Day Individuals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Peter Donnelly
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK. Email address: donnelly@stats.ox.ac.uk
Carsten Wiuf
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3T6, UK. Email address: wiuf@stats.ox.ac.uk
Jotun Hein
Affiliation:
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Montgomery Slatkin
Affiliation:
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA. Email address: slatkin@socrates.berkeley.edu
W. J. Ewens
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 415 South University Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018, USA. Email address: wewens@sas.upenn.edu
J. F. C. Kingman
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, Senate House, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK

Abstract

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Type
General Applied Probability
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1999 

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