Genetic Variation and its Maintenance

by Derek F. Roberts, G. F. De Stefano

Overview

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 Details

ISBN-13:	9780521332576
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/30/1986
Series:	Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series , #27
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

1. Genetic diversity - its dimensions; 2. Genetic diversity - its origin and maintenance; 3. Genetic diversity - applications and problems of complex characters.