Researchers from diverse backgrounds are converging on the view that human evolution
has been shaped by gene–culture interactions. Theoretical biologists have used population …

Forensic DNA profiling currently allows the identification of persons already known to
investigating authorities. Recent advances have produced new types of genetic markers …

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

It has recently been shown that ancestors of New Guineans and Bougainville Islanders have
inherited a proportion of their ancestry from Denisovans, an archaic hominin group from …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major cause of human hepatitis. There is considerable
uncertainty about the timescale of its evolution and its association with humans. Here we …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many
thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among …

Debates about human prehistory often center on the role that population expansions play in
shaping biological and cultural diversity. Hypotheses on the origin of the Austronesian …

Markers on the non-recombining portion of the human Y chromosome continue to have
applications in many fields including evolutionary biology, forensics, medical genetics, and …

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 …