There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Density-dependent processes play a key role in the spatial structuring of biodiversity.
Specifically, interrelated demographic processes, such as gene surfing, high-density …

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POPART: full-feature software for haplotype network construction Jessica W. Leigh* and David …

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and
morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the …

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 …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

Although fossil remains show that anatomically modern humans dispersed out of Africa into
the Near East∼ 100 to 130 ka, genetic evidence from extant populations has suggested that …

Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to
Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the 'Austronesian …

MtDNA has been a widely used tool in human evolutionary and population genetic studies
over the past three decades. Its maternal inheritance and lack of recombination have offered …

A Taiwan origin for the expansion of the Austronesian languages and their speakers is well
supported by linguistic and archaeological evidence. However, human genetic evidence is …