Improving human forensics through advances in genetics, genomics and molecular biology

M Kayser, P De Knijff - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Forensic DNA profiling currently allows the identification of persons already known to
investigating authorities. Recent advances have produced new types of genetic markers …

Surfing during population expansions promotes genetic revolutions and structuration

L Excoffier, N Ray - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2008 - cell.com
Recent studies have shown that low-frequency alleles can sometimes surf on the wave of
advance of a population range expansion, reaching high frequencies and spreading over …

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

P Richerson, R Baldini, AV Bell, K Demps… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

[图书][B] Grounds for difference

R Brubaker - 2015 - degruyter.com
2 Introduction synthesis. After the microanalytic turn of my recent books, the present volume
also returns to meso-and macroanalytic levels of analysis. Grounds for Difference emerged …

[HTML][HTML] Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured populations

T Jombart, S Devillard, F Balloux - BMC genetics, 2010 - Springer
Background The dramatic progress in sequencing technologies offers unprecedented
prospects for deciphering the organization of natural populations in space and time …

[HTML][HTML] Signatures of environmental genetic adaptation pinpoint pathogens as the main selective pressure through human evolution

M Fumagalli, M Sironi, U Pozzoli… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Previous genome-wide scans of positive natural selection in humans have identified a
number of non-neutrally evolving genes that play important roles in skin pigmentation …

How race becomes biology: embodiment of social inequality

CC Gravlee - American journal of physical anthropology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The current debate over racial inequalities in health is arguably the most important venue for
advancing both scientific and public understanding of race, racism, and human biological …

Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa

QD Atkinson - Science, 2011 - science.org
Human genetic and phenotypic diversity declines with distance from Africa, as predicted by
a serial founder effect in which successive population bottlenecks during range expansion …

[图书][B] Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease

M Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

PJ Richerson, R Boyd… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The use of socially learned information (culture) is central to human adaptations. We
investigate the hypothesis that the process of cultural evolution has played an active …