John H. Relethford, Deborah A. Bolnick

Reflections of Our Past (eBook, PDF)

How Human History Is Revealed in Our Genes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The rise of the multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry points to one immutable truth about us as human beings: we want to know where we come from and who our ancestors were. John H. Relethford and Deborah A. Bolnick explore this topic and many more in this second edition of Reflections of Our Past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429891717
• Artikelnr.: 55263887

Autorenporträt

John H. Relethford is Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Anthropology, SUNY College at Oneonta. He has published extensively on human population genetics, biological variation, and the origin of modern humans. Dr. Relethford has served as President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and as Chair of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.



Deborah A. Bolnick is Associate Professor of Anthropology, currently at the University of Texas at Austin but moving to the University of Connecticut in Fall 2018. She has served as President, Past-President, and Vice President of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics,and is a co-organizer of the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) program. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of anthropology and genetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The History in Our Genes
2. The Naked Ape
3. Out of Africa: Our Genetic Legacy
4. The Fate of the Neandertals (and Other Archaeic Humans)
5. The First Inhabitants of the Americas
6. Genetics and the Spead of Agriculture in Europe
7. Voyagers of the Pacific
8. Three Tales from Ireland
9. Admixture and History
10. Ancestory, Identity, and Race