Sibling competition helped guide dispersal in pre-industrial populations

Monday, July 25, 2016 - 10:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Researchers who examined family genealogies from Finland found that the presence of same-sex elder siblings increased the probability that people would disperse to new lands, whereas having opposite-sex siblings had less influence.

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