Human Evolutionary Genetics

Mark Jobling received a degree in biochemistry and a DPhil from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom before moving to the University of Leicester in 1992 as a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Sciences and Reader in Genetics. Matthew Hurles received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Oxford University in the United Kingdom and his doctorate from Leicester University in the United Kingdom. He was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University's McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research until recently, analyzing genetic variation to improve our understanding of the human past. Chris Tyler-Smith received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Oxford University in the United Kingdom and his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text that brings together molecular genetics and genomics for the first time to study the origins and movements of human populations. It is among the best books on genetics.

Beginning with a non-specialist overview of molecular genomics (which can be a useful review for those with a more genetic background), the book shows how data from the post-genomic era can be used to investigate human origins and global colonization, richly illustrated with genetic trees and global maps. For the first time in a textbook, the authors explain how genetic data and the emerging understanding of our origins can be applied to modern population analyses such as genealogies, forensics, and medicine.

Author: Mark Jobling, Matthew Hurles and Chris Tyler-Smith

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