ABSTRACT

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of human populations. Starting with an overview of molecular genomics for the non-specialist (which can be a useful review for those with a more genetic background), the book shows h

chapter Chapter One|15 pages

An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Genetics

part Section 1|1 pages

How do we study genome diversity?

chapter Chapter two|26 pages

Organization and inheritance of the human genome

chapter Chapter Three|52 pages

Human genome variation

chapter Chapter Four|37 pages

Finding and assaying genome diversity

part Section 2|1 pages

How do we interpret genetic variation?

chapter Chapter Five|34 pages

Processes shaping diversity

chapter Chapter Six|58 pages

Making inferences from diversity

part Section 3|1 pages

Where and when did humans originate?

chapter Chapter Seven|32 pages

Humans as apes

chapter Chapter Eight|26 pages

What Genetic Changes Have Made us Human?

chapter Chapter Nine|35 pages

Origins of Modern Humans

part Section 4|1 pages

How did humans colonize the world?

chapter Chapter Ten|22 pages

The Distribution of Diversity

chapter Chapter Eleven|23 pages

The colonization of the old world and australia

chapter Chapter Twelve|46 pages

Agricultural expansions

chapter Chapter Thirteen|34 pages

Into New-Found Lands

chapter Chapter Fourteen|34 pages

What Happens when Populations Meet

part Section 5|1 pages

How is an evolutionary perspective useful?

chapter Chapter Sixteen|24 pages

Evolutionary Insights into Simple Genetic Diseases

chapter Chapter Seventeen|15 pages

Evolution and Complex Diseases

chapter Chapter Eighteen|29 pages

Identity and identification