Simulating Human Origins and Evolution
β Wessen K.P.
π Library
π
2005
π Cambridge University Press
π English
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Simulating Human Origins and Evolution
β Scribed by K. P. Wessen
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 258
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 42
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, are both influenced by a complex of interacting, underlying processes. Computer simulation provides a means of experimenting within an idealised framework to allow aspects of these processes and their interactions to be isolated, controlled, and understood. In this 2005 book, computer simulation is used to model migration, extinction, fossilisation, interbreeding, selection and non-hereditary effects in the context of human populations and the observed distribution of fossil and current hominoid species. The simulations described enable the visualisation and study of lineages, genetic diversity in populations, character diversity across species and the accuracy of reconstructions, allowing insights into human evolution and the origins of humankind for graduate students and researchers in the fields of physical anthropology, human evolution, and human genetics.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Cover......Page 1
Copywright......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
1. Introduction......Page 18
Part I. Simulating species......Page 32
2. Overview......Page 34
3. Simulation design......Page 43
4. Running the simulation......Page 59
5. Simulating diversity......Page 73
6. Simulating migration......Page 101
7. Discussion......Page 135
Part II. Simulating genealogies......Page 148
8. Overview......Page 150
9. Simulation design......Page 168
10. Simulating a single population......Page 179
11. Simulating multiple populations......Page 203
12. Adding genetics to the genealogy......Page 218
13. Discussion......Page 237
References......Page 248
Index......Page 256
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