Genes, language, and culture history in the Southwest Pacific
By: edited by Jonathan Scott Friedlaender.
Contributors: Friedlaender, Jonathan Scott.
Series: Human evolution series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780195300307
Subjects: Population genetics -- Oceania -- Congresses; Linguistics -- Oceania -- Congresses; Human population genetics -- Oceania -- Congresses; Oceania -- Civilization -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Genes, language, & culture history in the Southwest Pacific
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jonathan S. Friedlaender; title: Island Melanesian pasts : a view from archeology / Glenn R. Summerhayes; title: Recent research on the historical relationships of the Papuan languages, or, What does linguistics say about the prehistory of Melanesia? / Andrew Pawley; title: Mitochondrial DNA variation in Northern Island Melanesia / Jonathan S. Friedlaender ... [et al.]; title: Y chromosome variation in Northern Island Melanesia / Laura B. Scheinfeldt ... [et al.]; title: Pigmentation and candidate gene variation in Northern Island Melanesia / Heather L. Norton, George Koki, Jonathan S. Friedlaender; title: The distribution of an insertion/deletion polymorphism on chromosome 22 / Renato Robledo; title: The languages of Island Melanesia / Eva Lindström ... [et al.]; title: Inferring prehistory from genetic, linguistic, and geographic variation / Keith Hunley... [et al.]; title: Animal translocations, genetic variation, and the human settlement of the Pacific / Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith; title: Viral phylogeny and human migration in the Southwest Pacific / Jill Czarnecki, Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Gerald Stoner; title: Origins of plant exploitation in near Oceania : a review / Robin Allaby; title: Extraordinary population structure among the baining of New Britain / Jason A. Wilder and Michael F. Hammer; title: Immunoglobin allotypes as a marker of population history in the Southwest Pacific / Moses S. Schanfield ... [et al.]; title: Contributions of population origins and gene flow to the diversity of neutral and malaria selected autosomal genetic loci of Pacific Island populations / J. Koji Lum; title: Conclusion / Jonathan S. Friedlaender.