Genetic consequences of range expansions

L Excoffier, M Foll, RJ Petit - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Although range expansions have occurred recurrently in the history of most species, their
genetic consequences have been little investigated. Theoretical studies show that range …

SNP ascertainment bias in population genetic analyses: why it is important, and how to correct it

J Lachance, SA Tishkoff - Bioessays, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Whole genome sequencing and SNP genotyping arrays can paint strikingly different pictures
of demographic history and natural selection. This is because genotyping arrays contain …

[图书][B] Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution

PJ Richerson, R Boyd - 2008 - books.google.com
Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals
in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to …

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 …

Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language

W Enard, M Przeworski, SE Fisher, CSL Lai, V Wiebe… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Abstract Language is a uniquely human trait likely to have been a prerequisite for the
development of human culture. The ability to develop articulate speech relies on …

Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa

S Ramachandran, O Deshpande… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Equilibrium models of isolation by distance predict an increase in genetic differentiation with
geographic distance. Here we find a linear relationship between genetic and geographic …

The origin of modern human behavior: critique of the models and their test implications

CS Henshilwood, CW Marean - Current anthropology, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
Archaeology's main contribution to the debate over the origins of modern humans has been
investigating where and when modern human behavior is first recognized in the …

[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] Masters of the planet: The search for our human origins

I Tattersall - 2012 - books.google.com
50,000 years ago–merely a blip in evolutionary time–our Homo sapiens ancestors were
competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had …

Patterns of DNA sequence diversity and genetic structure after a range expansion: lessons from the infinite‐island model

L Excoffier - Molecular ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
It has been long recognized that population demographic expansions lead to distinctive
features in the molecular diversity of populations. However, recent simulation results have …