Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution

WT Fitch - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2017 - Springer
The study of language evolution, and human cognitive evolution more generally, has often
been ridiculed as unscientific, but in fact it differs little from many other disciplines that …

The evolution of human genetic and phenotypic variation in Africa

MC Campbell, SA Tishkoff - Current biology, 2010 - cell.com
Africa is the birthplace of modern humans, and is the source of the geographic expansion of
ancestral populations into other regions of the world. Indigenous Africans are characterized …

Putting the landscape into the genomics of trees: approaches for understanding local adaptation and population responses to changing climate

VL Sork, SN Aitken, RJ Dyer, AJ Eckert… - Tree Genetics & …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Forest ecosystem genomics Research: supporTing Transatlantic Cooperation
project (FoResTTraC, http://www. foresttrac. eu/) sponsored a workshop in August 2010 to …

Map** signatures of positive selection in the genome of livestock

S Qanbari, H Simianer - Livestock science, 2014 - Elsevier
Human driven selection during domestication and subsequent breed formation and
breeding has left detectable signatures within the genome of livestock breeds. The …

Evaluation of genetic diversity, agronomic traits, and anthracnose resistance in the NPGS Sudan Sorghum Core collection

HE Cuevas, LK Prom - Bmc Genomics, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Plant
Germplasm System (NPGS) sorghum core collection contains 3011 accessions randomly …

Adaptation to high altitude: phenotypes and genotypes

CM Beall - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Populations residing for millennia on the high-altitude plateaus of the world started natural
experiments that we can evaluate to address questions about the processes of evolution …

A road map for molecular ecology

RL Andrew, L Bernatchez, A Bonin… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The discipline of molecular ecology has undergone enormous changes since the journal
bearing its name was launched approximately two decades ago. The field has seen great …

Adaptations to new environments in humans: the role of subtle allele frequency shifts

AM Hancock, G Alkorta-Aranburu… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans show tremendous phenotypic diversity across geographically distributed
populations, and much of this diversity undoubtedly results from genetic adaptations to …

A meta-assembly of selection signatures in cattle

IAS Randhawa, MS Khatkar, PC Thomson… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Since domestication, significant genetic improvement has been achieved for many traits of
commercial importance in cattle, including adaptation, appearance and production. In …

Contributions of landscape genetics–approaches, insights, and future potential.

VL Sork, L Waits - Molecular Ecology, 2010 - search.ebscohost.com
The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one on the
landscape genetics, one on the influence of different landscape variables to gene flow in two …