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Genes, culture, and human evolution : a synthesis

Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesisis a textbook on human evolution that offers students a unique combination of cultural anthropology and genetics. * Written by two geneticists---including a world-renowned scientist and founder of the Human Genome Diversity Project---and a socio-cultural anthropologist.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Blackwell, Malden, MA, ©2007
xxi, 314 pages, [10] pages de planches : illustrations (certaines en couleur), cartes (certaines en couleur)
9781405150897, 9781405131667, 1405150890, 1405131667
182615716
Genetic and cultural theory : a brief overview
Human descent and paleoanthropology
Foundations of classical and molecular genetics
Genetics as a key to human origins and prehistory
Fundamentals of human evolution : mutation and natural selection
Fundamentals of human evolution : drift, migration, and quantitative analysis of human genetic diversity
Cultural evolution
Geography of human genes and correlation with languages
The prehistory of human genes
Voyages : prehistoric human expansions
The neolithic transition in Europe and the peopling of the Americas
Genes, kinship, and identity
Cultural clines, clades, cycles, and waves
Genes and culture in medicine