African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda

L Pereira, L Mutesa, P Tindana, M Ramsay - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The deep evolutionary history of African populations, since the emergence of modern
humans more than 300,000 years ago, has resulted in high genetic diversity and …

Favored races in the struggle for life: racism and the speciation concept

JL Graves - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Evolutionary speciation, whether it be cladistic or phyletic, has always been associated with
race concepts. Biological races are conceived as definable stages of divergence from a …

Human biology and ancient DNA: exploring disease, domestication and movement

CJ Houldcroft, RF Rifkin… - Annals of Human Biology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The development of ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis has radically transformed how we think
about and study the past. The use of aDNA technology has permeated almost every area of …

[PDF][PDF] Ancient DNA

EA Sawchuk - The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, 2021 - academia.edu
Ancient DNA (aDNA) refers to fragments of an organism's DNA (endogenous DNA)
preserved in the remains of long-dead animals (including humans), plants, and the …