Genes, culture, and human evolution
Subtitle: a synthesis
By: Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin ; with an introduction by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
Contributors: Lurquin, Paul F.; Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. 1922-
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781405131667; 9781405150897
Subjects: Human population genetics.; Human evolution.; Evolutionary genetics.; Paleoanthropology.; Genetics, Population.; Cultural Characteristics.; Cultural Evolution.; Evolution.; Genetic Processes.; Paleontology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Genetic and cultural theory : a brief overview; title: Human descent and paleoanthropology; title: Foundations of classical and molecular genetics; title: Genetics as a key to human origins and prehistory; title: Fundamentals of human evolution : mutation and natural selection; title: Fundamentals of human evolution : drift, migration, and quantitative analysis of human genetic diversity; title: Cultural evolution; title: Geography of human genes and correlation with languages; title: The prehistory of human genes; title: Voyages : prehistoric human expansions; title: The neolithic transition in Europe and the peopling of the Americas; title: Genes, kinship, and human identity; title: Cultural clines, clades, cycles, and waves; title: Genes and culture in medicine.