This volume considers the genetic variability of human populations, particularly in the tropics: its origins and maintenance, and its contribution to the phenotypic variability of complex characters. The first section deals with the ways of analysing genetic variation and provides a valuable review of relevant developments in molecular biology. The origin and maintenance of genetic diversity is considered in the second section with data presented for Pacific, African, Asian and Central American populations. The final section concerns characters in which the genetic contribution to variability is complex and shows how such characters may be used to elucidate biological problems of affinity and differentiation, of adaptation and survival. Published as part of the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences, this volume will be of particular interest to human geneticists, physical and biological anthropologists.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521332576
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95978755
Product Key Features
Author
Derek F. Roberts, G. F. De Stefano
Publication Name
Genetic Variation and Its Maintenance
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Biology
Publication Year
1986
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
308 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
236mm
Item Width
158mm
Item Weight
596g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series
Editor
G. F. De Stefano, Derek F. Roberts
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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