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Title Genes, language, and culture history in the Southwest Pacific / edited by Jonathan Scott Friedlaender
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Series Human evolution series
Human evolution series.
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 [and others] -- Y chromosome variation in Northern Island Melanesia / Laura B. Scheinfeldt [and others] -- 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 Lindström [and others] -- Inferring prehistory from genetic, linguistic, and geographic variation / Keith Hunley [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Population genetics -- Oceania -- Congresses
Linguistics -- Oceania -- Congresses
Human population genetics -- Oceania -- Congresses
Manners and customs.
Language and languages.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander -- genetics
Cultural Characteristics
Language
language (general communication)
languages (study discipline)
customs (social concepts)
HISTORY.
Manners and customs
Language and languages
Civilization
Human population genetics
Linguistics
Population genetics
SUBJECT Oceania -- Civilization -- Congresses
Oceania
Subject Oceania
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Friedlaender, Jonathan Scott.
ISBN 9780198041085
019804108X
9786611851545
6611851542
128185154X
9781281851543
Other Titles Genes, language, & culture history in the Southwest Pacific
Available from some providers with title: Population genetics, linguistics, and culture history in the Southwest Pacific