Genes, language, and culture history in the Southwest Pacific / edited by Jonathan Scott Friedlaender.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedlaender, Jonathan Scott.

Series:

Human evolution series.

Human evolution series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population genetics--Oceania--Congresses.

Population genetics.

Linguistics--Oceania--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Human population genetics--Oceania--Congresses.

Human population genetics.

Oceania--Civilization--Congresses.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Other Title:

Genes, language, & culture history in the Southwest Pacific

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The islands north of Australia are home to a set of remarkably diverse human populations. The authors have used a sampling strategy to reveal the complex structure of the variation of populations in this region. Their findings reveal early human migrations out of Africa and an abundance of genetic variation within Island Melanesia.

Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan S. Friedlaender

Island Melanesian pasts : a view from archeology / Glenn R. Summerhayes

Recent research on the historical relationships of the Papuan languages, or, What does linguistics say about the prehistory of Melanesia? / Andrew Pawley

Mitochondrial DNA variation in Northern Island Melanesia / Jonathan S. Friedlaender ... [et al.]

Y chromosome variation in Northern Island Melanesia / Laura B. Scheinfeldt ... [et al.]

Pigmentation and candidate gene variation in Northern Island Melanesia / Heather L. Norton, George Koki, Jonathan S. Friedlaender

The distribution of an insertion/deletion polymorphism on chromosome 22 / Renato Robledo

The languages of Island Melanesia / Eva Lindstrom ... [et al.]

Inferring prehistory from genetic, linguistic, and geographic variation / Keith Hunley... [et al.]

Animal translocations, genetic variation, and the human settlement of the Pacific / Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith

Viral phylogeny and human migration in the Southwest Pacific / Jill Czarnecki, Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Gerald Stoner

Origins of plant exploitation in near Oceania : a review / Robin Allaby

Extraordinary population structure among the baining of New Britain / Jason A. Wilder and Michael F. Hammer

Immunoglobin allotypes as a marker of population history in the Southwest Pacific / Moses S. Schanfield ... [et al.]

Contributions of population origins and gene flow to the diversity of neutral and malaria selected autosomal genetic loci of Pacific Island populations / J. Koji Lum

Conclusion / Jonathan S. Friedlaender.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-029367-5

0-19-804108-X

9786611851545

1-281-85154-X

OCLC:

922954038