Comparative studies of ethnically diverse human populations, particularly in Africa, are
important for reconstructing human evolutionary history and for understanding the genetic …

The expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples over large parts of sub-Saharan Africa is still a
matter of debate—not only with respect to the propelling force behind it and the route (s) …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa has consistently been shown to be the most genetically diverse
region in the world. Despite the fact that a substantial portion of this variation is partitioned …

Comparisons of levels of variability on the autosomes and X chromosome can be used to
test hypotheses about factors influencing patterns of genomic variation. While a tremendous …

Background Current information about the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples is
hampered by the scarcity of genetic data from well identified populations from southern …

Although Africa is the origin of modern humans, the pattern and distribution of genetic
variation and correlations with cultural and linguistic diversity in Africa have been …

Sociocultural phenomena, such as exogamy or phylopatry, can largely determine human
sex-specific demography. In Central Africa, diverging patterns of sex-specific genetic …

The phylogeny and historical demography of small Eurasian vipers of the Vipera ursinii and
V. renardi complexes were studied using mitochondrial DNA sequences analysed with …

Abstract Background The current San and Khoe populations are remnant groups of a much
larger and widely dispersed population of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, who had …