Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Mitochondrial DNA in ancient and modern humans
- 2 Digital DNA typing of human paternal lineages
- 3 Minisatellites as tools for population genetic analysis
- 4 DNA fingerprinting: development of a technology and its application to the study of human populations
- 5 Kinship, inbreeding, and matching probabilities
- 6 Using the coalescent to interpret gene trees
- 7 Some attempts at measuring natural selection by malaria
- 8 AIDA: Geographical patterns of DNA diversity investigated by autocorrelation statistics
- 9 Mitochondrial DNA sequences in Europe: an insight into population history
- 10 Palaeolithic and neolithic contributions to the European mitochondrial gene pool
- 11 The molecular diversity of the Niokholo Mandenkalu from Eastern Senegal: an insight into West Africa genetic history
- 12 The peopling of Madagascar
- 13 Molecular perspectives on the colonisation of the Pacific
- 14 Population ancestry on Tristan da Cunha–the evidence of the individual
- 15 Linguistic divergence and genetic evolution: a molecular perspective from the New World
- 16 Allelic sequence diversity at the human β-globin locus
- 17 A nuclear perspective on human evolution
- 18 Contrasting gene trees and population trees of the evolution of modern humans
- 19 Methods and models for understanding human diversity
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Mitochondrial DNA in ancient and modern humans
- 2 Digital DNA typing of human paternal lineages
- 3 Minisatellites as tools for population genetic analysis
- 4 DNA fingerprinting: development of a technology and its application to the study of human populations
- 5 Kinship, inbreeding, and matching probabilities
- 6 Using the coalescent to interpret gene trees
- 7 Some attempts at measuring natural selection by malaria
- 8 AIDA: Geographical patterns of DNA diversity investigated by autocorrelation statistics
- 9 Mitochondrial DNA sequences in Europe: an insight into population history
- 10 Palaeolithic and neolithic contributions to the European mitochondrial gene pool
- 11 The molecular diversity of the Niokholo Mandenkalu from Eastern Senegal: an insight into West Africa genetic history
- 12 The peopling of Madagascar
- 13 Molecular perspectives on the colonisation of the Pacific
- 14 Population ancestry on Tristan da Cunha–the evidence of the individual
- 15 Linguistic divergence and genetic evolution: a molecular perspective from the New World
- 16 Allelic sequence diversity at the human β-globin locus
- 17 A nuclear perspective on human evolution
- 18 Contrasting gene trees and population trees of the evolution of modern humans
- 19 Methods and models for understanding human diversity
- Index
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- Molecular Biology and Human Diversity , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996