Regional surname affinity: A spatial network approach.
Objective: We investigate surname affinities among areas of modern‐day China, by constructing a spatial network, and making community detection. It reports a geographical genealogy of the Chinese population that is result of population origins, historical migrations, and societal evolutions. Materia...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Physical Anthropology Vol. 168; no. 3; pp. 428 - 438 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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