Genes, culture, and human evolution:a synthesis
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Group Author: | ; ; |
Published: |
Blackwell,
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Publisher Address: | Malden, MA |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xxi, 314 p., [12] p. of plates: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
1405150890 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405131667 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405150897 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405131667 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | Q981 |
CLC: |
Q981.1 Q987 Q98 |
Call Number: | Q98/S878 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and index. Genetic and cultural theory : a brief overview -- Human descent and paleoanthropology -- Foundations of classical and molecular genetics -- Genetics as a key to human origins and prehistory -- Fundamentals of human evolution : mutation and natural selection -- Fundamentals of human evolution : drift, migration, and quantitative analysis of human genetic diversity -- Cultural evolution -- Geography of human genes and correlation with languages -- The prehistory of human genes -- Voyages : prehistoric human expansions -- The neolithic transition in Europe and the peopling of the Americas -- Genes, kinship, and human identity -- Cultural clines, clades, cycles, and waves -- Genes and culture in medicine. |