Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Primate Social Organization, Ecology, and Genetic Variation

   • D. H. O’Rourke, V. Bach Enciso

   Pages 1-28

3. Population Structures of Ghanzi and Ngamiland !Kung

   • Henry Harpending, LuAnn Wandsnider

   Pages 29-50

4. Population Structure of Circumpolar Groups of Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland

   • Michael H. Crawford, Victoria Bach Enciso

   Pages 51-91

5. Ecology and Biological Structure of Pastoral Isseqqamaren Tuareg

   • Philippe Lefèvre-Witier

   Pages 93-124

6. The Population Structure of the Romany Gypsies

   • Eric Sunderland

   Pages 125-137

7. Genetic Architecture of Swidden Agricultural Tribes from the Lowland Rain Forests of South America

   • Peter E. Smouse

   Pages 139-178

8. Genetic Structure of the Semai

   • Alan Fix

   Pages 179-204

9. Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis of Biological Variation on Bougainville Island

   • Robert R. Sokal, Jonathan Friedlaender

   Pages 205-227

10. Linguistic, Ecological, and Genetic Differentiation in New Guinea and the Western Pacific

    • R. L. Kirk

    Pages 229-253

11. Historical Population Structure of the Åland Islands, Finland

    • J. H. Mielke, E. J. Devor, P. L. Kramer, P. L. Workman, A. W. Eriksson

    Pages 255-332

12. Genetic Microevolution in the Åland Islands, Finland

    • L. B. Jorde, P. L. Workman, A. W. Eriksson

    Pages 333-365

13. Population Structure of Farming Communities of Northern England

    • D. F. Roberts

    Pages 367-384

14. Population Structure and Anthropometric Variation in Ireland during the 1930s

    • Francis C. Lees, John H. Relethford

    Pages 385-428

15. Population Structure of a Religious Isolate: The Dariusleut Hutterites of Alberta

    • Kenneth Morgan, T. Mary Holmes

    Pages 429-448

16. Kinship and Inbreeding in Populations of Middle Eastern Origin and Controls

    • N. E. Morton

    Pages 449-466

17. The Population Structure of an Urban Area in Britain

    • D. Coleman

    Pages 467-506

18. New Developments in Anthropological Genetics

    • William S. Pollitzer

    Pages 507-520

19. Back Matter

    Pages 521-525

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This volume examines the interrelationship of ecology, subsistence pat­ terns, and the observed genetic variation in human populations. Hence, the book is divided conceptually into the following categories: nonhuman primates, hunters and gatherers, nomads, swidden agriculturalists, peas­ ant farmers, religious isolates, and modern and urban aggregates. While many of these populations have experienced (and are experiencing) ac­ culturation as a result of contact with technologically more advanced groups, the genetic structures described in this volume attempt to recon­ struct the traditional patterns as well as genetic changes because of con­ tact. Most chapters also integrate biological (genetic), social, and de­ mographic data within an ecological frame thus presenting a holistic view of the population structures of ecologically distinct groups. The first chapter examines the body of early nonhuman primate lit­ erature that emphasized ecological determinism in effecting the popula­ tion structure of our primate ancestors-relatives. It also examines more recent literature (since 1970) in which it became apparent that greater flexibility exists in primate social structure within specific environmental frameworks. Thus, it appears that our nonhuman primate evolutionary heritage is not one of ecological determinism in social organization but one of flexibility and rapid change suggesting the evolutionary success of our species is based upon a system of flexibility and that social ad­ aptations can be accomplished in a number of diverse ways.

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• Mutation
• agriculture
• development
• ecology
• environment
• enzymes
• evolution
• fertility
• forest
• genes
• genetic research
• genetics
• mutant
• protein

• University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

  Michael H. Crawford, James H. Mielke

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