Genes, culture, and human evolution : a synthesis / Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin ; with an introduction by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
| Author/creator | Stone, Linda, 1947- |
| Other author | Lurquin, Paul F. |
| Other author | Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (Luigi Luca), 1922-2018 |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007. |
| Description | xxi, 314 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Genetic and cultural theory : a brief overview -- Human descent and paleoanthropology -- Foundations of classical and molecular genetics -- Genetics as a key to human origins and prehistory -- Fundamentals of human evolution : mutation and natural selection -- Fundamentals of human evolution : drift, migration, and quantitative analysis of human genetic diversity -- Cultural evolution -- Geography of human genes and correlation with languages -- The prehistory of human genes -- Voyages : prehistoric human expansions -- The neolithic transition in Europe and the peopling of the Americas -- Genes, kinship, and human identity -- Cultural clines, clades, cycles, and waves -- Genes and culture in medicine. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006004375 |
| ISBN | 1405150890 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1405131667 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781405150897 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781405131667 (pbk. : alk. paper) |