Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesisis a textbook on human evolution that offers students a unique combination of cultural anthropology and genetics.
- Written by two geneticists---including a world-renowned scientist and founder of the Human Genome Diversity Project---and a socio-cultural anthropologist.
- Based on recent findings in genetics and anthropology that indicate the analysis of human culture and evolution demands an integration of these fields of study.
- Focuses on evolution---or, rather, co-evolution---viewed from the standpoint of genes and culture, and their inescapable interactions.
- Unifies cultural and genetic concepts rather than rehashing nonempirical sociobiological musings.
- Demonstrates that empirical genetic evidence, based on modern DNA analysis and population studies, provides an excellent foundation for understanding human cultural diversity.
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Preface.
Introduction by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
1. Genetic and Cultural Theory: A Brief Overview.
2. Human Descent and Paleoanthropology.
3. Foundations of Classical and Molecular Genetics.
4. Genetics as a Key to Human Origins and Prehistory.
5. Fundamentals of Human Evolution: Mutation and Natural Selection.
6. Fundamentals of Human Evolution: Drift, Migration, and Quantitative Analysis of Human Genetic Diversity.
7. Cultural Evolution.
8. Geography of Human Genes and Correlation with Languages.
9. The Prehistory of Human Genes.
10. Voyages: Prehistoric Human Expansions.
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