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Cover illustration: African bead design representing the African continent. Copyright: Mário Vicente and Gwenna Breton, 2015.
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Names: Fortes-Lima, Cesar, editor. | Mtetwa, Ezekia, editor. | Schlebusch, Carina, editor.
Title: Africa, the cradle of human diversity : cultural and biological approaches to uncover African diversity / edited by Cesar Fortes-Lima, Ezekia Mtetwa, Carina Schlebusch.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. | Series: Africa-Europe Group for interdisciplinary studies, 1574-6925 ; volume 26 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021048715 (print) | LCCN 2021048716 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004500211 (paperback) | ISBN 9789004500228 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Ethnology–Africa. | Human beings–Africa–Origin. | Human evolution–Africa. | Human genetics–Variation–Africa. | Africa–Population.
Classification: LCC GN645 .A354 2022 (print) | LCC GN645 (ebook) | DDC 305.80096--dc23/eng/20211105
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021048715
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021048716
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ISSN 1574-6925
ISBN 978-90-04-50021-1 (paperback)
ISBN 978-90-04-50022-8 (e-book)
Copyright 2022 by Cesar Fortes-Lima, Ezekia Mtetwa, and Carina Schlebusch. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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