Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define
a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the …

The past decade of advances in molecular genetic technology has heralded a new era for all
evolutionary studies, but especially the science of human evolution. Data on various kinds …

… The quantitative study of gene-culture coevolution began in 1973, when Cavalli-Sforza
and Feldman introduced a simple dynamic model of cultural transmission into the nature-nurture …

… Drawing on these concepts, Professors Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman classify and systematize
the various modes of transmitting" culture" and explore their consequences for cultural …

Organisms, through their metabolism, their activities, and their choices, define, partly create,
and partly destroy their own niches. We refer to these phenomena as" niche construction." …

We studied human population structure using genotypes at 377 autosomal microsatellite loci
in 1056 individuals from 52 populations. Within-population differences among individuals …

One of the central aims of ecology is to identify mechanisms that maintain biodiversity 1 , 2 .
Numerous theoretical models have shown that competing species can coexist if ecological …

… nonrandom mating systems (see, eg, Aoki & Feldman 1997; Durham 1991; Laland 1994), …
of natural selection (Aoki & Feldman 1987; Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman 1983), and the impact of …

Mutations of alleles at microsatellite loci tend to result in alleles with repeat scores similar to
those of the alleles from which they were derived. Therefore the difference in repeat score …

We use variation at a set of eight human Y chromosome microsatellite loci to investigate the
demographic history of the Y chromosome. Instead of assuming a population of constant size…