Although range expansions have occurred recurrently in the history of most species, their
genetic consequences have been little investigated. Theoretical studies show that range …

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 …

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 …

Markers on the non-recombining portion of the human Y chromosome continue to have
applications in many fields including evolutionary biology, forensics, medical genetics, and …

It has been argued recently that the initial dispersal of anatomically modern humans from
Africa to southern Asia occurred before the volcanic “supereruption” of the Mount Toba …

The history of click-speaking Khoe-San, and African populations in general, remains poorly
understood. We genotyped∼ 2.3 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 220 southern …

The Y chromosome contains the largest nonrecombining block in the human genome. By
virtue of its many polymorphisms, it is now the most informative haploty** system, with …

Well-resolved molecular gene trees illustrate the concept of descent with modification and
exhibit the opposing processes of drift and migration, both of which influence population …

Although considerable cultural impact on social hierarchy and language in South Asia is
attributable to the arrival of nomadic Central Asian pastoralists, genetic data (mitochondrial …

We estimate an effective mutation rate at an average Y chromosome short-tandem repeat
locus as 6.9× 10− 4 per 25 years, with a standard deviation across loci of 5.7× 10− 4, using …