Evolutionary basis of human migration

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139003308.006

4 - Evolutionary basis of human migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012

Benjamin C. Campbell and

Lindsay Barone

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Michael H. Crawford and

Benjamin C. Campbell

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Michael H. Crawford: Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Benjamin C. Campbell: Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Introduction

Human migration is not only a ubiquitous process in the modern world, but one with deep roots. The ease of travel today has greatly accelerated migration, leading not only to increased rates of migration, but to new forms such as transnational migration in which families move to a new country only long enough to move on to another. At the same time, recent finds in the fossil record make it clear that humans and their immediate ancestors have been migrating in one form or another since the origins of the genus Homo, almost 2 million years ago.

Such antiquity suggests that migration itself may be a context for natural selection, linking success in migration with successful reproduction (Wells and Stock, 2007; Wells and Stock, this volume). If so, we can expect that migration has left traces in the human genome that link ancient and modern human migration. These would include not only the neutral markers that have been used to trace movements of human populations (see this volume), but beneficial genes selected for by successful migration.

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Information: Causes and Consequences of Human Migration
An Evolutionary Perspective
, pp. 45 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003308.006 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2012

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