GENES, CULTURE, AND HUMAN EVOLUTION: A SYNTHESIS

1. Genetic and Cultural Theory: A Brief Overview.
2. Human Descent and Paleoanthropology.
3. Foundations of Classical and Molecular Genetics.
4. Genetics as a Key to Human Origins and Prehistory.
5. Fundamentals of Human Evolution: Mutation and Natural Selection.
6. Fundamentals of Human Evolution: Drift, Migration, and Quantitative Analysis of Human Genetic Diversity.
7. Cultural Evolution.
8. Geography of Human Genes and Correlation with Languages.
9. The Prehistory of Human Genes.
10. Voyages: Prehistoric Human Expansions.
11. The Neolithic Transition in Europe and the Peopling of the Americas.
12. Genes, Kinship, and Identity.
13. Cultural Clines, Clades, Cycles, and Waves: The Process of Cultural Evolution.
14. Genes and Culture in Medicine.

General Conclusion.
Appendix 1. The Denaturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (DHPLC) Technique.
Appendix 2. The Hardy–Weinberg Theorem.
Appendix 3. A Simulation of Drift.
Appendix 4. The Diversification of Languages.

Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesisis a textbook on human evolution that offers students a unique combination of cultural anthropology and genetics.

• Written by two geneticists---including a world-renowned scientist and founder of the Human Genome Diversity Project---and a socio-cultural anthropologist.
• Based on recent findings in genetics and anthropology that indicate the analysis of human culture and evolution demands an integration of these fields of study.
• Focuses on evolution---or, rather, co-evolution---viewed from the standpoint of genes and culture, and their inescapable interactions.
• Unifies cultural and genetic concepts rather than rehashing nonempirical sociobiological musings.
• Demonstrates that empirical genetic evidence, based on modern DNA analysis and population studies, provides an excellent foundation for understanding human cultural diversity.

Author Information
• Linda Stone is Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. She has produced over 25 scholarly publications, including 8 books.
• Paul F. Lurquin is Professor of Genetics at Washington State University. He is the author and coauthor of over 100 scholarly publications, including 6 books.
• L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza is Professor Emeritus of Genetics at Stanford University. His publications comprise over 500 articles and 14 books. He is a member of the United States Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Royal Society, French Academy of Sciences, and the Italian Academy of Sciences.