[HTML][HTML] Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

EML Scerri, MG Thomas, A Manica, P Gunz… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population
and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils …

DNA markers reveal the complexity of livestock domestication

MW Bruford, DG Bradley, G Luikart - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003 - nature.com
A series of recent genetic studies has revealed the remarkably complex picture of
domestication in both New World and Old World livestock. By comparing mitochondrial and …

On the importance of being structured: instantaneous coalescence rates and human evolution—lessons for ancestral population size inference?

O Mazet, W Rodríguez, S Grusea, S Boitard, L Chikhi - Heredity, 2016 - nature.com
Most species are structured and influenced by processes that either increased or reduced
gene flow between populations. However, most population genetic inference methods …

Interrogating a high-density SNP map for signatures of natural selection

JM Akey, G Zhang, K Zhang, L Jin… - Genome research, 2002 - genome.cshlp.org
Identifying genomic regions that have been targets of natural selection remains one of the
most important and challenging areas of research in genetics. To this end, we report an …

[图书][B] Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease

M Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

[图书][B] First migrants: ancient migration in global perspective

P Bellwood - 2014 - books.google.com
The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model

P Mellars - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Recent research has provided increasing support for the origins of anatomically and
genetically “modern” human populations in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago …

The application of molecular genetic approaches to the study of human evolution

LL Cavalli-Sforza, MW Feldman - Nature genetics, 2003 - nature.com
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 …

Going east: new genetic and archaeological perspectives on the modern human colonization of Eurasia

P Mellars - Science, 2006 - science.org
The pattern of dispersal of biologically and behaviorally modern human populations from
their African origins to the rest of the occupied world between∼ 60,000 and 40,000 years …

Genetic foundations of human intelligence

IJ Deary, W Johnson, LM Houlihan - Human genetics, 2009 - Springer
Individual differences in intelligence (cognitive abilities) are a prominent aspect of human
psychology, and play a substantial role in influencing important life outcomes. Their …