Most Recent Articles from Human Biology

• Introduction: Demography and Cultural Macroevolution 

  Abstract The papers in this special issue of Human Biology, which derive from a conference sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council...

  04/01/09 by Steele, James; Shennan, Stephen · More from publication

• Human Dispersals: Mathematical Models and the Archaeological Record 

  Abstract The theoretical literature on human population dispersal processes at the large time and space scale is reviewed, including references to...

  04/01/09 by Steele, James · More from publication

• Inferring Past Demography Using Spatially Explicit Population Genetic Models 

  Abstract Inferring the past demography of human populations has been classically approached through data from the archaeological record but more...

  04/01/09 by Ray, Nicolas; Excoffier, Laurent · More from publication

• Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals 

  Abstract The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having...

  04/01/09 by Bentley, R Alexander; Layton, Robert H; Tehrani, Jamshid · More from publication

• Demography and Language Competition 

  Abstract Attempts to describe language competition and extinction in a mathematical way have enjoyed increased popularity recently. In this paper I...

  04/01/09 by Kandler, Anne · More from publication

• Cultural Innovations and Demographic Change 

  Abstract Demography plays a large role in cultural evolution through its effects on the effective rate of innovation. If we assume that useful...

  04/01/09 by Richerson, Peter J; Boyd, Robert; Bettinger, Robert L · More from publication

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