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The Origins of Colonization

A Genetic and Historical Thesis on the Proto-European Origins of Global Population Displacement

Maro A. JonesMarch 202635 min read

This thesis proposes and defends a unifying framework for understanding colonization not as a phenomenon unique to European expansion in the modern era (roughly 1400-1900 CE), but as a recurrent patte...

Ancient DNAPopulation GeneticsColonizationWorld HistoryAnthropology

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