▪ Abstract Several unique properties of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including its
high copy number, maternal inheritance, lack of recombination, and high mutation rate, have …

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 …

Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across
Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. The genetic relationships between these early …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

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 …

Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood's Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in 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 …

Founder analysis is a method for analysis of nonrecombining DNA sequence data, with the
aim of identification and dating of migrations into new territory. The method picks out founder …

" This volume inspires. It certainly will be much appreciated by cell biologists all over the
world." Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2009 This book is the eagerly awaited second …

The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to
combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and …