Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics: Volume 1 Theory and Methods

✍ Scribed by Kenneth M. Weiss (auth.), James H. Mielke, Michael H. Crawford (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The papers in this volume were presented as part of the University of Kansas Department of Anthropology Distinguished Lecture Program on Anthro­ pological Genetics. Consecutively, each contributor spent approximately a week on the campus at Lawrence participating in a seminar. The contributors to this volume were not on campus at one time, but visited us on alternating weeks; hence, a symposium-type interchange was not possible between all participants. However, the students and faculty of Kansas University acted as a sounding board. This volume can be considered a companion and continuation of Methods and Theories of Anthropological Genetics, which was based upon a symposium on the state of the art in 1971. This present volume reflects what we consider to be some of the advances and current developments in anthropological genetics since 1973. Emphasis has shifted, to some degree, away from population struc­ ture analysis (as depicted in Crawford and Workman) to genetic epidemiology. However, population structure still remains a fertile and ongoing area of research with many theoretical questions still remaining unanswered.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Voices of Our Ancestors....Pages 3-16
Historical Demography....Pages 17-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Perspectives on the Theory of Social Evolution....Pages 45-64
The Anthropological Usefulness of Highly Polymorphic Systems....Pages 65-85
Natural Selection and Random Variation in Human Evolution....Pages 87-109
The Simulation of Human Fertility....Pages 111-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
The Genetic Structure of Subdivided Human Populations....Pages 135-208
Distance Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 209-250
Pedigree Analysis of Complex Models....Pages 251-298
Current Directions in Genetic Epidemiology....Pages 299-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Segregation Analysis....Pages 327-354
Path Analysis of Quantitative Inheritance....Pages 355-372
Half-Sib Analysis of Quantitative Data....Pages 373-396
Mental Abilities....Pages 397-417
Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics....Pages 419-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-436

✦ Subjects

Human Genetics