Molecular Biology and Human Diversity
Part of Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series
- Editors:
- Anthony J. Boyce, University of Oxford
- C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: September 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521560863
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The public is now paying considerable attention to the use of molecular evidence in studies of human diversity and origins. Much of the early work in this area was based on evidence from mitochondrial DNA, but this has now been supplemented by important new information from nuclear DNA from both Y chromosomes and the autosomes. The bulk of the material available is from living populations, but this is being extended by the study of DNA from archaic populations. The underlying models used in interpreting this evidence are based on the neutral theory of molecular evolution, but also consider the possible role of selection. This volume brings together much new evidence and methodology from an international group of scientists.
Read more- Up-to-date examination of applications of molecular techniques to unravel mysteries of human diversity and evolution
- International panel of experts from many fields
- Techniques discussed now being widely applied to other areas of animal and evolutionary biology
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"All in all, this book is a fair and useful representation of our knowledge of human genetic diversity near the end of this century." The Quarterly Review of Biology
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- Date Published: September 1996
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521560863
- length: 322 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- contains: 80 b/w illus. 30 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Mitochondrial DNA in ancient and modern humans E. Hagelberg
2. Digital DNA typing of human paternal lineages M. A. Jobling, N. Bouzekri, N. Fretwell, G. A. Dover and A. J. Jeffreys
3. Minisatellites as tools for population genetic analysis J. Flint, J. Bond, R. M. Harding and J. B. Clegg
4. DNA fingerprinting: development of a technology and its application to the study of human populations A. P. Ryskov, M. I. Prosnyak, N. S. Kupriyanova, E. K. Khusnutdinova, I. M. Khidiatova, V.V. Kalnin, O.V. Kalnina, K. B. Bulkayeva and S. A. Limborska
5. Kinship, breeding and matching probabilities N. E. Morton and J. Teague
6. Using the coalescent to interpret gene trees R. M. Harding
7. Some attempts at measuring natural selection by malaria A. V. S. Hill
8. AIDA: geographical patterns of DNA diversity investigated by autocorrelation statistics G. Barbujani and G. Bertorelle
9. Mitochondrial DNA sequences in Europe: an insight into population history J. Betranpetit, F. Calafell, D. Comas, A. Pérez-Lezaun and E. Mateu
10. Palaeolithic and neolithic contributions to the European mitochondrial gene pool B. Sykes, H. Côrte-Real and M. Richards
11. The molecular diversity of the Niokholo Mandenkalu from Eastern Senegal: and insight into West Africa genetic theory L. Excoffier, E. S . Poloni, S. Santachiara-Benerecetti, O. Semino, and A. Langaney
12. The peopling of Madagascar H. Soodyall, T. Jenkins, R. Hewitt, A. Krause, M. Stoneking
13. Molecular perspectives on the colonisation of the Pacific J. J. Martinson
14. Population ancestry on Tristan da Cunha - the evidence of the individual D. F. Roberts and H. Soodyall
15. Linguistic divergence and genetic evolution: molecular perspectives from the New World R. H. Ward
16. Allelic sequence diversity at the human b-globulin locus S. M. Fullerton
17. A nuclear perspective on human evolution K. K. Kidd and J. R. Kidd
18. Contrasting gene trees and population trees of the evolution of modern humans N. Saitou
19. Methods and models for understanding human diversity H. C. Harpending, J. H. Relethford and S. T. Sherry
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