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History and geography of human genetic diversity I

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Four major factors of evolution: mutation, natural selection, drift, migration -- Role of demography in the quantitative study of evolution -- Drift: the Parma Valley study -- Equilibrium of migration and drift -- Founders' effect -- Reconstructing evolutionary history of a population -- Evidence of the importance of drift from molecular evolution -- Molecular evolution of proteins -- Trees with proteins and trees with DNA -- Phylogeographic analysis -- Microsatellites -- Graphic presentation of evolution data by principal components analysis.…”
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History and geography of human genetic diversity II by Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (Luigi Luca), 1922-

“…Human population genetics I : evolution and variation.…”
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History and geography of human genetic diversity III

Table of Contents: “…-- Correlation between genetic and geographic distance -- Decrease of genetic diversity in the human expansion as serial founder effect -- Coevolution of genes and languages -- Linguistic families: correlation of the genetic and linguistic trees -- Darwin's statement -- The complete tree of language evolution.…”
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