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Simulating Human Origins and Evolution
K. P. Wessen
CUP
Hardback
Hardback 258 pages ISBN 0521843995
£70.00
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The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, are both influenced
by a complex of interacting, underlying processes. Computer simulation provides a means of experimenting
within an idealised framework to allow aspects of these processes and their interactions to be isolated, controlled,
and understood. In this book, computer simulation is used to model migration, extinction, fossilisation, interbreeding,
selection and non-hereditary effects in the context of human populations and the observed distribution of fossil and
current hominoid species. The simulations described enable the visualisation and study of lineages, genetic diversity
in populations, character diversity across species and the accuracy of reconstructions, allowing new insights into
human evolution and the origins of humankind for graduate students and researchers in the fields of physical
anthropology, human evolution, and human genetics.
- Author is well-known in the field, and his research has attracted a lot of attention
- Author to host a website connected with the book, accessible from www.cambridge.org/0521843995
Contents
1. Introduction;
Part I. Simulating Species:
2. Overview;
3. Simulation design;
4. Running the simulation;
5. Simulating diversity;
6. Simulating migration;
7. Discussion;
Part II. Simulating Genealogies:
8. Overview;
9. Simulation design;
10. Simulating a single population;
11. Simulating multiple populations;
12. Adding genetics to the genealogy;
13. Discussion;
Part III. Bibliography and Index.
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