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Stone, Linda, 1947-

Genes, culture, and human evolution : a synthesis / Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin ; with an introduction by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza. - Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007. - xxi, 314 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and index.

Genetic and cultural theory : a brief overview -- Human descent and paleoanthropology -- Foundations of classical and molecular genetics -- Genetics as a key to human origins and prehistory -- Fundamentals of human evolution : mutation and natural selection -- Fundamentals of human evolution : drift, migration, and quantitative analysis of human genetic diversity -- Cultural evolution -- Geography of human genes and correlation with languages -- The prehistory of human genes -- Voyages : prehistoric human expansions -- The neolithic transition in Europe and the peopling of the Americas -- Genes, kinship, and human identity -- Cultural clines, clades, cycles, and waves -- Genes and culture in medicine.

ISBN: 9781405131667 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405131667 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405150897 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405150890 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006004375

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA633998 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013431815 Uk 101294183 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human population genetics.
Human evolution.
Evolutionary genetics.
Paleoanthropology.
Genetics, Population.
Cultural Characteristics.
Cultural Evolution.
Evolution.
Genetic Processes.
Paleontology.

LC Class. No.: GN289 / .S76 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 599.935 STO

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2007 A-121 QU 450 / S878g 2007