Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Mitochondrial DNA in ancient and modern humans
- 2 Digital DNA typing of human paternal lineages
- 3 Minisatellites as tools for population genetic analysis
- 4 DNA fingerprinting: development of a technology and its application to the study of human populations
- 5 Kinship, inbreeding, and matching probabilities
- 6 Using the coalescent to interpret gene trees
- 7 Some attempts at measuring natural selection by malaria
- 8 AIDA: Geographical patterns of DNA diversity investigated by autocorrelation statistics
- 9 Mitochondrial DNA sequences in Europe: an insight into population history
- 10 Palaeolithic and neolithic contributions to the European mitochondrial gene pool
- 11 The molecular diversity of the Niokholo Mandenkalu from Eastern Senegal: an insight into West Africa genetic history
- 12 The peopling of Madagascar
- 13 Molecular perspectives on the colonisation of the Pacific
- 14 Population ancestry on Tristan da Cunha–the evidence of the individual
- 15 Linguistic divergence and genetic evolution: a molecular perspective from the New World
- 16 Allelic sequence diversity at the human β-globin locus
- 17 A nuclear perspective on human evolution
- 18 Contrasting gene trees and population trees of the evolution of modern humans
- 19 Methods and models for understanding human diversity
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Mitochondrial DNA in ancient and modern humans
- 2 Digital DNA typing of human paternal lineages
- 3 Minisatellites as tools for population genetic analysis
- 4 DNA fingerprinting: development of a technology and its application to the study of human populations
- 5 Kinship, inbreeding, and matching probabilities
- 6 Using the coalescent to interpret gene trees
- 7 Some attempts at measuring natural selection by malaria
- 8 AIDA: Geographical patterns of DNA diversity investigated by autocorrelation statistics
- 9 Mitochondrial DNA sequences in Europe: an insight into population history
- 10 Palaeolithic and neolithic contributions to the European mitochondrial gene pool
- 11 The molecular diversity of the Niokholo Mandenkalu from Eastern Senegal: an insight into West Africa genetic history
- 12 The peopling of Madagascar
- 13 Molecular perspectives on the colonisation of the Pacific
- 14 Population ancestry on Tristan da Cunha–the evidence of the individual
- 15 Linguistic divergence and genetic evolution: a molecular perspective from the New World
- 16 Allelic sequence diversity at the human β-globin locus
- 17 A nuclear perspective on human evolution
- 18 Contrasting gene trees and population trees of the evolution of modern humans
- 19 Methods and models for understanding human diversity
- Index
Summary
This volume is based on papers presented at the 38th annual symposium of the Society for the Study of Human Biology held on 3 and 4 April 1995 at Corpus Christi College and the Department of Biological Anthropology, Cambridge. The sessions were chaired by Dr John Clegg, Professor Lord Renfrew, Dr Derek Roberts and Dr Chris Stringer.
The Editors wish to record their thanks to Dr Tracey Sanderson, Commissioning Editor, Biological Sciences, Ms Susan Bishop, Production Controller, and Ms Mary Sanders, Copy Editor, of Cambridge University Press for their help during the production of this volume.
The Committee of the Society acknowledges with gratitude the generous financial support for the meeting provided by the Boise Fund of Oxford University, the International Union of Biological Sciences, and the Wellcome Trust.
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- Molecular Biology and Human Diversity , pp. xv - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996