Human Evolutionary Genetics | Life Science

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Human Evolutionary Genetics reaches its third edition at a time when sequencing and analyzing whole genomes modern and ancient has become rapid affordable and routine. These advances have led to an avalanche of data on present-day and archaic humans and a remarkable series of revelations about our past. This new and completely revised edition makes sense of this rich and complex information tying it into other sources of evidence from paleontology archaeology paleoclimatology and linguistics. The book takes readers on a journey from the prehistoric origins of our ancestors through to the historical era. Chapters describing genome variation and how it can tell us about demography and selecti…