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The Genetics of Human Populations 1st Edition

by L. L. Cavalli-Sforza (Author), W. F. Bodmer (Author)
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The study of population genetics is an important factor in a broad range of fields, including medical genetics, public health, physical anthropology, sociology, and psychology. That is the premise underlying this thorough, advanced treatment of the nature and source of inherited characteristics, which provides the reader with a sound introduction to population genetics, including the mathematical techniques useful in this discipline. Prior to the publication of this book, no comprehensive treatment of the genetics of human populations emphasized the interpretation of data in relation to the theoretical models. This book fills the need for such a treatment.
Beginning with the basic concepts of genetics, the authors — both world famous geneticists — advance to discussions of Mendelian populations, mutations, transient and balanced polymorphisms, genetic demography and natural selection, and inbreeding. A review of population structure (focusing on genetic drift and migration) is followed by chapters on sexual dimorphism and human evolution; the book concludes with an examination of eugenics, euphenics, and human welfare.
The authors presume only a minimal background in mathematics, but they have provided additional material for readers with more extensive training in mathematical probability, segregation, and linkage analysis in human pedigrees and the estimation of gene frequencies, and sample problems. The result is an exceptionally advanced and comprehensive treatment of the subject that ranks as one of the standard teaching and reference works in its field.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0486406938
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0486406930
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Dover Publications
  5. Publication date
    April 17, 2013
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches
  8. Print length
    992 pages
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  • W. YIP
    5.0 out of 5 stars What I like most is that it contains a section of solved ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014
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    It is an older textbook of human population genetics. It is well-written and explains a lot of the concepts very clearly. The book was last updated in 1999 and of course, it does not contain some of the recent results. This is a gigantic book with over 800 pages and covers a lot of topics. What I like most is that it contains a section of solved examples. It shows the complexity of the problems in population genetics and how it can be solved with mostly algebra. If you are learning population genetics, I would strongly recommend this book. But, you need patience to read through 800 pages of it.
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  • mcewin
    5.0 out of 5 stars THE classic of human population genetics
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2007
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    This Dover reprint of the classic human population genetics 1970's text, originally published by Freeman, will be welcome. Though factually dated by the ensuing 30 years of molecular genetic data, this remains a superb introduction to basic mathematical theory. I've used it in a grad course, and students really enjoyed it.
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