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Further Reading
Avise JC (2000) Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bandelt H‐J, Macaulay V and Richards M (eds) (2006) Human Mitochondrial DNA and the Evolution of Homo sapiens. Berlin: Springer.
Bellwood P and Renfrew C (eds) (2002) Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Jobling M, Hollox E, Kivisild T, Tyler‐Smith C, Hurles M (2013) Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples and Disease. 2nd edn. Oxford: Garland Science.
Oppenheimer S (2003) Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World. London: Constable.
Renfrew C and Boyle K (eds) (2000) Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Richards M (2003) The Neolithic invasion of Europe. Annual Review of Anthropology 32: 135–162.
Richards M and Macaulay V (2001) The mitochondrial gene tree comes of age. American Journal of Human Genetics 68: 1315–1320.
Templeton AR (2005) Haplotype trees and modern human origins. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 48: 33–59.
Torroni A, Achilli A, Macaulay V, Richards M and Bandelt H‐J (2006) Harvesting the fruit of the human mtDNA tree. Trends in Genetics 22: 339–345.