Genetics Variation & Maintenance: 27 (Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series, Series Number 27) - Softcover

Roberts, Derek F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521064570 ISBN 13: 9780521064576

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This volume considers the genetic variability of human populations, particularly in the tropics: its origins and maintenance, and its contribution to the phenotypic variability of complex characters. The first section deals with the ways of analysing genetic variation and provides a valuable review of relevant developments in molecular biology. The origin and maintenance of genetic diversity is considered in the second section with data presented for Pacific, African, Asian and Central American populations. The final section concerns characters in which the genetic contribution to variability is complex and shows how such characters may be used to elucidate biological problems of affinity and differentiation, of adaptation and survival. Published as part of the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences, this volume will be of particular interest to human geneticists, physical and biological anthropologists.

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Book Description

This volume considers the genetic diversity of human populations, particularly in the tropics: its origins and maintenance, and its contribution to the phenotypic variability of complex characters. It deals with ways of analysing genetic variation and discusses genetic diversity in the Pacific, African, Asian and Central American populations. Characters in which the genetic contribution to variability is complex are discussed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521064570
• ISBN 13: 9780521064576
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308