Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples & Disease
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 how data from the post-genomic era can be used to examine human origins and the human colonisation of the planet, richly illustrated with genetic trees and global maps. For the first time in a textbook, the authors outline how genetic data and the understanding of our origins which emerges, can be applied to contemporary population analyses, including genealogies, forensics and medicine. Why study human evolutionary genetics? -- Structure, function and inheritance of the human genome -- The diversity of the human genome -- Discovering and assaying genome diversity -- Processes shaping diversity -- Making inferences from diversity -- Humans as apes -- Origins of modern humans -- The distribution of diversity : out of Africa and into Asia, Australia and Europe -- Agricultural expansions -- Into new found lands -- What happens when populations meet? -- Understanding the past and future of phenotypic variation -- Health implications of our evolutionary heritage -- Identity and identification.
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