Tesis doctoral de Verónica Daniela Ramos Gomes
Africa is the homeland of modern humans and has the highest levels of genetic diversity both within and between populations, and therefore africa is of vital importance for human population genetics. In african continent, several major population movements occurred, having a determinant role in the shaping of the nowadays genetic diversity patterns. For that reason, the purpose of this study was to increase the knowledge about the bantu and nilotic migrations, as well as, about the hypothesis of ¿back to africa¿ migration that both occurred in africa, making use of both paternal and maternal genetic information in combination with historic, archaeological and linguistic interpretations. The results acquired allowed to obtain new data and clarify some aspects related with the nilotic and bantu population expansions and also with the hypothesis of a ¿back to africa¿ migration.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Ethnicity and genetics in sub-saharan africa«
- Título de la tesis: Ethnicity and genetics in sub-saharan africa
- Autor: Verónica Daniela Ramos Gomes
- Universidad: Santiago de compostela
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 16/12/2011
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Angel María Carracedo Alvarez
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: María victoria Lareu huidobro
- María Joao prata (vocal)
- María José Farfan espuny (vocal)
- luzt Roewer (vocal)