Migration and Colonization in Human Microevolution (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521592062
Subjects: Biological anthropology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Human Ecology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology; Emigration & Immigration; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Emigration And Immigration; Human evolution; Human population genetics
First sentence: Migration is a process with consequences that are important to theory in several disciplines and the term may be used in several senses in these different domains.
Description: "Migration and colonization are major forces affecting the frequency, spatial pattern and spread of genes in human populations. Here, Alan Fix reviews theories of migration developed by biologists and social scientists, and surveys patterns of migration in a diverse sample of human populations. Using these empirical studies, he evaluates models of migration developed by population geneticists and explores more realistic models using computer simulation.

He then shows the relevance of studies of migration as a microevolutionary process to the understanding of longer term global patterns of human diversification, by examining the spread of anatomically modern Homo sapiens, the demic diffusion of agriculture in Europe, and the origins of human diversity in the Malayan Peninsula.

By focusing on migration as a process rather than as its genetic consequences, the book provides a bridge between biological and social science studies of migration, genetic microevolutionary theory and longer term human evolution."--BOOK JACKET.