The past decade of advances in molecular genetic technology has heralded a new era for
all evolutionary studies, but especially the science of human evolution. Data on various …

Since the completion of the human genome sequencing project, the discovery and
characterization of human genetic variation is a principal focus for future research …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

In Europe, the Neolithic transition (8,000–4,000 bc) from hunting and gathering to
agricultural communities was one of the most important demographic events since the initial …

Abstract The Iberian Peninsula was one of the most important Pleistocene glacial refugia in
Europe. A number of recent studies have documented the phylogeography of Iberian taxa …

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 …

Founder analysis is a method for analysis of nonrecombining DNA sequence data, with the
aim of identification and dating of migrations into new territory. The method picks out founder …

Many species, including humans, have dramatically expanded their range in the past, and
such range expansions had certainly an impact on their genetic diversity. For example …

A genetic perspective of human history in Europe was derived from 22 binary markers of the
nonrecombining Y chromosome (NRY). Ten lineages account for> 95% of the 1007 …

The ancestry of modern Europeans is a subject of debate among geneticists, archaeologists,
and anthropologists. A crucial question is the extent to which Europeans are descended …