Episodes of population growth and decline leave characteristic signatures in the distribution
of nucleotide (or restriction) site differences between pairs of individuals. These signatures …

Expansions of population size leave characteristic signatures in mitochondrial “mismatch
distributions.” Consequently, these distributions can inform us about the history of changes in …

… The Rogers and Harpending theory shows that an episode of … or since expansion, we
use Rogers's (I993) method-of… times that we present were computed as Rogers's T statistic. …

Patterns of gene differences among humans contain information about the demographic history
of our species. Haploid loci like mitochondrial DNA and the nonrecombining part of the Y …

Most social scientists would agree that the capacity for human culture was probably fashioned
by natural selection, but they disagree about the implications of this supposition. Some …

This paper entertains the hypothesis that human time preferences are in evolutionary equilibrium
(ie that no mutation changing time preferences could be favored by natural selection). …

The proportion of human genetic variation due to differences between populations is modest,
and individuals from different populations can be genetically more similar than individuals …

Parasites can be used as unique markers to investigate host evolutionary history, independent
of host data. Here we show that modern human head lice, Pediculus humanus, are …

The melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) locus makes a protein that affects the color of skin and
hair. At this locus, amino-acid differences are entirely absent among African humans, …

We examine the distribution and structure of human genetic diversity for 710 individuals
representing 31 populations from Africa, East Asia, Europe, and India using 100 Alu insertion …