From the 1960s, mathematical and computational tools have been developed to arrive at
human population trees from various kinds of serological and molecular data. Focusing on�…

Phylogenies are increasingly being used to investigate human history, diversification and
cultural evolution. While using phylogenies in this way is not new, new modes of analysis�…

Molecular biologists and some population geneticists have recently claimed to be able to
reconstruct modern human populations remote history by means of phylogenetic trees�…

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of�…

The ABO blood groups, and other blood group systems as they were discovered, provided
an empirical foundation for human genetics research during the first half of the twentieth�…

Dispersal, mate exchange and behavioral innovations leading to cultural dominance and
replacement have obscured some of the relationships between major linguistic groups and�…

For a variety of reasons the human species does not consist of a single interbreeding
population. Rather, we are an array of locally interconnected populations (demes) whose�…

Over the past three decades, modern human origins and dispersal have been investigated
using phylogenetic analyses of genetic and linguistic data. As a result, a large body of�…

The twenty‐first century brought certainty to the understanding that people alive today and
their immediate ancestors—modern humans—are not uniquely the descendants of a recent�…

The work of classification entails a conceptual model shared by all of anthropology.
Underlying it is the fundamental question: How are resemblances and differences among�…