
Human Population Genetics and Genomics
Description
Key Features
- Comprehensively explains the use of population genetics and genomics in medical applications and research
- Discusses the relevance of population genetics and genomics to major social issues, including race and the dangers of modern eugenics proposals
- Provides an overview of how population genetics and genomics helps us understand where we came from as a species and how we evolved into who we are now
Readership
Graduates and professionals in anthropology, human genetics, biomedical science, and evolutionary biology
Table of Contents
1. Definition, Scope and Premises of Human Population Genetics
2. The Human Genome
3. Systems of Mating
4. Genetic Drift
5. A Backwards View of Genetic Drift: Coalescence
6. Gene Flow and Subdivided Populations
7. Human Population History Over the Last Two Million Years
8. Genotype and Phenotype
9. Natural Selection
10. Detecting Selection Through its Interactions with other Evolutionary Forces
11. Units and Targets of Natural Selection
12. Human Adaptations to Temporally and Spatially Variable Environments
13. Selection in Age-Structured Populations
14. Human Population Genetics/Genomics and Society
Product details
- No. of pages: 498
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: November 8, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123860255
- eBook ISBN: 9780123860262
About the Author
Alan Templeton
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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RussellKlein Fri Sep 13 2019
Excellent up to date treatment of population genetics
I have so far read about a third of this book. I have found it an insightful treatment of this subject reminiscent of Ken Weiss's book (published 20 years ago) but with modern examples and incorporating modern approaches such as coalescence theory. The math is of course advanced but not made unnecessarily overcomplicated. I am really enjoying this textbook and highly recommend it.