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DNA's Evolutionary Dilemma
Genetic studies collide with the mystery of human evolution
DNA studies of humanity's origins have hit an impasse over how to choose between competing explanations of genetic findings.
References:
Harding, R.M., et al. 1997. Archaic African and Asian lineages in the genetic ancestry of modern humans. American Journal of Human Genetics 60(September):772.
Seielstad, M.T., E. Minch, and L.L. Cavalli-Sforza. 1998. Genetic evidence for a higher female migration rate in humans. Nature Genetics 20(November):278.
Templeton, A.R. 1998. Human races: A genetic and evolutionary perspective. American Anthropologist (November).
Further Readings:
Hammer, M.F., et al. 1998. Out of Africa and back again: Nested cladistic analysis of human Y chromosome variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15:427.
Mountain, J.L. 1998. Molecular evolution and modern human origins. Evolutionary Anthropology 7:21.
Relethford, J.H. 1998. Genetics of modern human origins and diversity. Annual Review of Anthropology 27:1.
Sources:
Michael F. Hammer
University of Arizona
Biosciences West
Department EEB
Tucson, AZ 85721
Rosalind M. Harding
John Radcliffe Hospital
MRC Molecular Haematology Unit
Institute of Molecular Medicine
Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
Neil Howell
University of Texas Medical Branch
Department of Radiation Oncology
Biology Division 0656
Galveston, TX 77555-0656
Joanna L. Mountain
Stanford University
Department of Anthropology
Stanford, CA 94305
John H. Relethford
Sate University of New York
College at Oneonta
Department of Anthropology
Oneonta, NY 13820
Mark T. Seielstad
Harvard School of Public Health
Program for Population Genetics
665 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Mark Stoneking
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig
Germany
Alan R. Templeton
Washington University
Department of Biology
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 6, February 6, 1999, p. 88. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
