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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

The transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture in Nubia: dental evidence for and against selection, population continuity and discontinuity.

Joel D Irish, Donatella Usai

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Enamel-dentine junction morphology reveals population replacement and mobility in the late prehistoric Middle Nile Valley.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joel D IrishResearch Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK.
Donatella UsaiCentro Studi Sudanesi e Sub-Sahariani ONLUS, Strada Canizzano, 128/D, 31100, Treviso, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some researchers posit population continuity between Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of the late Pleistocene and Holocene agriculturalists from Lower (northern) Nubia, in northeast Africa. Substantial craniodental differences in these time-successive groups are suggested to result from

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AgricultureFossilsAfricaArizonaHistory, AncientHumansbiological affinitiesdental morphologyHolocenelate Pleistocenenortheast Africasubsistence change

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PMID34102887
PMCPMC8187995

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