New frontiers in the study of human cultural and genetic evolution

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-109

  Ross, Cody T ^a   Richerson, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CANNIBALISM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PIGMENTATION; PLASTICITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RACISM; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84908067794     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2014.08.014     Document Type: Review

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