Understanding the forces that influence natural variation within and among populations has
been a major objective of evolutionary biologists for decades. Motivated by the growth in …

The analysis of genetic variation to estimate demographic and historical parameters and to
quantitatively compare alternative scenarios recently gained a powerful and flexible …

We present here a new version of the Arlequin program available under three different
forms: a Windows graphical version (Winarl35), a console version of Arlequin (arlecore), and …

The peopling of the Americas has been the subject of extensive genetic, archaeological and
linguistic research; however, central questions remain unresolved,,,,. One contentious issue …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

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 …

Theory and empirical data from a variety of disciplines strongly imply that recent human
history involves extensive gene-culture coevolution, much of it as a direct result of human …

An adaptive variant of the human Ectodysplasin receptor, EDARV370A, is one of the
strongest candidates of recent positive selection from genome-wide scans. We have …

Background Comparisons of maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and
paternally-inherited non-recombining Y chromosome (NRY) variation have provided …

Over the past two decades, microsatellite genotypes have provided the data for landmark
studies of human population-genetic variation. However, the various microsatellite data sets …