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Human evolutionary genetics /
"Now in full color, this new edition of Human evolutionary genetics has been brought up-to-date with the many advances and discoveries made since the publication of the highly regarded first edition. The focus of the book is human genetic diversity: the mechanisms that generate it, how we study...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Garland Science,
c2013.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to human evolutionary genetics
- Organization and inheritance of the human genome
- Human genome variation
- Finding and assaying genome diversity
- Processes shaping diversity
- Making inferences from diversity
- Humans as apes
- What genetic changes have made us human?
- Origins of modern humans
- The distribution of diversity
- The colonization of the old world and Australia
- Agricultural expansions
- Into new-found lands
- What happens when populations meet
- Understanding the past, present, and future of phenotypic variation
- Evolutionary insights into simple genetic diseases
- Evolution and complex diseases
- Identity and identification.