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• catalog abstract "L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and his collaborators Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza have devoted fourteen years to one of the most compelling scientific projects of our time: the reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world. In this volume, the culmination of their research, the authors explain their pioneering use of genetic data, which they integrate with insights from geography, ecology, archaeology, physical anthropology, and linguistics to create the first full-scale account of human evolution as it occurred across all continents. This interdisciplinary approach enables them to address a wide range of issues that continue to incite debate: the timing of the first appearance of our species, the problem of African origins, including the significance of work recently done on mitochondrial DNA and the popular notion of an "African Eve," the controversy pertaining to the peopling of the Americas, and the reason for the presence of non-Indo-European languages - Basque, Finnish, and Hungarian - in Europe. The authors reconstruct the history of our evolution by focusing on genetic divergence among human groups. Using genetic information accumulated over the last fifty years, they examined over 110 different inherited traits, such as blood types, HLA factors, proteins, and DNA markers, in over eighteen hundred, primarily aboriginal, populations. By mapping the worldwide geographic distribution of the genes, the scientists are now able to chart migrations and, in exploring genetic distance, devise a clock by which to date evolutionary history: the longer two populations are separated, the greater their genetic difference should be. This volume highlights the authors' contributions to genetic geography, particularly their technique for making geographic maps of gene frequencies and their synthetic method of detecting ancient migrations, as for example, the migration of Neolithic farmers from the Middle East toward Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. Beginning with an explanation of their major sources of data and concepts, the authors give an interdisciplinary account of human evolution at the world level. Chapters are then devoted to evolution on single continents and include analyses of genetic data and how these data relate to geographic, ecological, archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic information. Compromising a wide range of viewpoints, a vast store of new and recent information on genetics, and a generous supply of visual elements, including more than 500 geographic maps, this book is a unique source of facts and a catalyst for further debate and research.".
• catalog contributor b5672192.
• catalog contributor b5672193.
• catalog contributor b5672194.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Beginning with an explanation of their major sources of data and concepts, the authors give an interdisciplinary account of human evolution at the world level. Chapters are then devoted to evolution on single continents and include analyses of genetic data and how these data relate to geographic, ecological, archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic information. Compromising a wide range of viewpoints, a vast store of new and recent information on genetics, and a generous supply of visual elements, including more than 500 geographic maps, this book is a unique source of facts and a catalyst for further debate and research.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-523) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction to concepts, data and methods -- Genetic history of world populations -- Africa -- Asia -- Europe -- America -- Australia, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands -- Epilogue -- Table of allele frequencies for forty-two populations analyzed in chapter 2 -- Table of allele frequencies -- Reference list for allele frequencies.".
• catalog description "L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and his collaborators Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza have devoted fourteen years to one of the most compelling scientific projects of our time: the reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world. In this volume, the culmination of their research, the authors explain their pioneering use of genetic data, which they integrate with insights from geography, ecology, archaeology, physical anthropology, and linguistics to create the first full-scale account of human evolution as it occurred across all continents.".
• catalog description "The authors reconstruct the history of our evolution by focusing on genetic divergence among human groups. Using genetic information accumulated over the last fifty years, they examined over 110 different inherited traits, such as blood types, HLA factors, proteins, and DNA markers, in over eighteen hundred, primarily aboriginal, populations. By mapping the worldwide geographic distribution of the genes, the scientists are now able to chart migrations and, in exploring genetic distance, devise a clock by which to date evolutionary history: the longer two populations are separated, the greater their genetic difference should be. This volume highlights the authors' contributions to genetic geography, particularly their technique for making geographic maps of gene frequencies and their synthetic method of detecting ancient migrations, as for example, the migration of Neolithic farmers from the Middle East toward Europe, West Asia, and North Africa.".
• catalog description "This interdisciplinary approach enables them to address a wide range of issues that continue to incite debate: the timing of the first appearance of our species, the problem of African origins, including the significance of work recently done on mitochondrial DNA and the popular notion of an "African Eve," the controversy pertaining to the peopling of the Americas, and the reason for the presence of non-Indo-European languages - Basque, Finnish, and Hungarian - in Europe.".
• catalog extent "xi, 541, 518 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0691087504 :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog subject "1994 J-489".
• catalog subject "573.21/5 20".
• catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
• catalog subject "Genetics, Population history.".
• catalog subject "Geography.".
• catalog subject "Human evolution.".
• catalog subject "Human geography.".
• catalog subject "Human population genetics History.".
• catalog subject "Human population genetics Research.".
• catalog subject "Humans Population Genetics".
• catalog subject "QH 431 C377h 1994".
• catalog subject "QH431 .C395 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to concepts, data and methods -- Genetic history of world populations -- Africa -- Asia -- Europe -- America -- Australia, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands -- Epilogue -- Table of allele frequencies for forty-two populations analyzed in chapter 2 -- Table of allele frequencies -- Reference list for allele frequencies.".
• catalog title "The history and geography of human genes / L. Luca Cavalli- Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".