Journal of Phylogenetics & Evolutionary Biology

Professor Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

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• Research   
  Evolutionary history of populations employing a bifurcating tree with horizontal links
  Author(s): Yuri Kartavtsev*
  
  Over the past 20 years numerous new trees of recent human populations are published extensively but little attention has been paid to formal phylogenetic synthesis. We utilized the “matrix representation with parsimony” (MRP) method to infer a composite phylogeny (supertree) of recent human populations, supported 257 genetic/genomic, also as linguistic, phylogenetic trees and 44 admixture plots from 200 published studies (1990–2014). The resulting supertree topology includes the foremost basal position of S African Khoisan followed by C African Pygmies and therefore the paraphyletic section of all other sub-Saharan peoples. The sub-Saharan African section is basal to the monophyletic clade consisting of the N African–W Eurasian assemblage and therefore the consistently monophyletic Eastern superclade (Sahul–Oceanian, E Asian and Beringian–American p.. Read More»
  

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