Table 2. Demographic parameters estimated from trio data.
Parameter | Estimate (kya) | Mean est. from simul. | Parameter | Estimate | Mean est. from simul. |
5.86 | 5.0 | 13,298 | 106,036 | ||
13.17 | 15.03 | 1,531 | 1,695 | ||
55.11 | 47.13 | 5,125 | 5,117 | ||
239.06 | 145.19 | 6,900 | 6,312 | ||
55.11 | 57.10 | 8,606 | 7,898 | ||
365.12 | 280.26 | 4,772 | 5,609 | ||
483.89 | 426.11 | ||||
0.0589 | 0.0393 |
These times, population sizes and migration rates parameterize the history depicted in Figure 7. The migration rate is the fraction of the European population made up of new migrants from the YRI population each generation between and ; it is also the fraction of the African population made up of new European immigrants each generation during the same time period.