Genes, Language, And Culture History in the Southwest Pacific

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Jonathan S. (EDT) Friedlaender
• Assisted by: Jonathan S. Friedlaender (Editor), Jonathan Scott Friedlaender (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2007
• EAN: 9780195300307
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530030-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 298 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Human Evolution Series; Human Evolution; Human Evolution Series; Human Evolution
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, Evolution, PHILOSOPHY / Language, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Genetics (non-medical), Dna & Genome, Historical and comparative linguistics, SCIENCE / Bioinformatics, Computational biology / bioinformatics