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Microsatellite Loci and the Origin of Modern Humans: A Bayesian Analysis

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Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Perspectives

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Microsatellite loci have recently been used to date the migration Out-of-Africa of early modern humans. In this paper, an extension of the stepwise model (Zhivotovsky and Feldman 1995) is used to build a Bayesian hierarchical model for microsatellite data sampled from African and non-African populations. The prior information induced by the assumptions contained in the stepwise model is exploited to obtain the estimate of the time since the migration Out-of-Africa. The results obtained using our Bayesian model suggest that the original African populations that eventually made up the other populations could have comprised about 20,000-50,000 individuals and of these less than 15% could have migrated Out-of-Africa. The event of divergence can be dated to 100,000-300,000 years ago.

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  1. Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Solomon P. Wasser

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    Solomon P. Wasser

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Stefanini, F.M., Feldman, M.W. (1999). Microsatellite Loci and the Origin of Modern Humans: A Bayesian Analysis. In: Wasser, S.P. (eds) Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Perspectives. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4830-6_15

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