Researchers from diverse backgrounds are converging on the view that human evolution
has been shaped by gene–culture interactions. Theoretical biologists have used population …

Charles Darwin attributed human evolutionary success to three traits. Our social habits and
anatomy were important, he said, but the critical feature was our intelligence, because it led …

Strong evidence suggests that rare mutations of severe effect are responsible for a
substantial portion of complex human disease. Evolutionary forces generate vast genetic …

There has long been interest in understanding the genetic basis of human adaptation. To
what extent are phenotypic differences among human populations driven by natural …

High-altitude hypoxia (reduced inspired oxygen tension due to decreased barometric
pressure) exerts severe physiological stress on the human body. Two high-altitude regions …

Why evolution is true Page 1 Jerry A. Coyne Why ºf isTrue ing... masterful... outstandingly
good." Richard Dawkins, TLS Page 2 Page 3 WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE Jerry Coyne is a …

The use of socially learned information (culture) is central to human adaptations. We
investigate the hypothesis that the process of cultural evolution has played an active …

Quantifying patterns of population structure in Africans and African Americans illuminates
the history of human populations and is critical for undertaking medical genomic studies on …

Background The ability of adult humans to digest the milk sugar lactose-lactase persistence-
is a dominant Mendelian trait that has been a subject of extensive genetic, medical and …

Detecting recent selected 'genomic footprints' applies directly to the discovery of disease
genes and in the imputation of the formative events that molded modern population genetic …