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In the Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition (2010)
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In the Light of Evolution Volume IV: The Human Condition

Agriculture and agricultural populations

gene–culture coevolution, 3-4, 67, 73, 74, 76, 88, 231, 236, 240, 245, 247, 255

gene flows, 3-4, 84-85, 99

genetic adaptations, 67, 73, 74, 76, 88, 231, 236

Holocene, 245, 255

Neolithic period in Africa, 3-4, 84, 85, 88, 90

Plio-Pleistocene, 247

population movements, 3-4, 160

AIDS, 115

Albinism, 193

Alkaptonuria, 193

Alkorta-Aranburu, Gorka, 3, 63-79

Allia Bay fossils, 15, 16

Altruism, 261, 266, 268, 298, 321-322, 332-333, 334, 335

Amhara people, 65, 68

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 196

Anabaptists, 245

Anagenesis, 22, 35, 36, 38, 46

Anatomically modern Homo, 2, 8, 9, 10-11, 13, 83, 234, 236, 237-238, 241, 248, 249, 250-251.

See also Homo sapiens

Ancestral North Indians, 172

Angelman syndrome, 138

Anthropogeny, defined, xvi

Arago fossils, 46

Aramis fossils, 19, 34-35

Archaeopteryx, 28

Archaic hominins, 2, 6, 9, 14, 15-17, 23

Ardipithecus

A. kadabba, 9, 20-21, 36

A. ramidus, 9, 19-20, 21, 34-35, 237, 254

Argentinians, 149

Arginine, 71, 111, 113

Argument from design, 104, 188-189

Argument from imperfection. See Human genomic flaws

Aristotle, 168, 323

Arsuaga, Juan Luis, 2, 27-46

Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia, iv, viii, xiii, xv-xvi, 46, 125, 331

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art, viii

Ascorbic acid synthesis, 287-288

Asfaw, Berhane, 10

Asia

anatomically modern humans, 83

apes, 29, 30, 50

fossil sites, 11

western, 11

Asthma, 115, 149, 198, 244

Ateles, 52

Atherosclerosis, 119, 120-121

Auditory system, 56

Australian aborigines, 65

Australopithecus

Au. afarensis, 9, 15-16, 17, 20, 21, 35

Au. africanus, 6, 9, 15, 17

Au. anamensis, 9, 16, 35

Au. bahrelghazali, 9, 16

Au. boisei, 18

Au. garhi, 9, 17, 19

Au. sediba, 6, 9

classification, 32

diet, 253

morphology, 15-16, 17, 20, 21, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 251

Autoimmune diseases, 113, 115, 173

Avise, John C., xiii-xiv, 104, 185-204

Auton, Adam, 102-103, 147-166

Autosomal DNA analysis

African population history, 4, 83, 86, 91, 92, 93, 95-96, 99

Hispanic/Latino ancestry, 147, 148, 151, 152, 153, 158, 159, 161, 162

Ayala, Francisco J., xiii-xiv, 309, 319-339

Aymara, 151, 156

B

Baboons, 53, 60

Baggara people, 96

Bailey’s Ecoregion Map, 76

Bantu people and languages, 68, 82, 88, 90-91, 97, 151, 154, 155, 156, 161

Barrett, H. Clark, 207, 293-318

Basques, 68, 151, 154, 156

Bayesian linear model method, 65

Beall, Cynthia, 3, 63-79

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, 138-139

Behe, Michael, 186, 190

Belgium, fossil sites, 11

Belohdelie fossils, 15

Bengalese finch, 288

Biaka pygmies, 151, 154, 156

Bile acid biosynthesis, 71

Bimana, 49

Biodiversity, defined, xiii

Bioenergetics.

See also Energy metabolism

and ascent of man, 128, 142-144

and brain evolution, 102, 143-144

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Front Matter (R1-R16)
PART I: HUMAN PHYLOGENETIC HISTORY AND THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RECORD (1-4)
1 Reconstructing Human Evolution: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities--Bernard Wood (5-26)
2 Terrestrial Apes and Phylogenetic Trees--Juan Luis Arsuaga (27-46)
3 Phylogenomic Evidence of Adaptive Evolution in the Ancestry of Humans-Morris Goodman and Kirstin N. Sterner (47-62)
4 Human Adaptations to Diet, Subsistence, and Ecoregion Are Due to Subtle Shifts in Allele Frequency--Angela M. Hancock, David B. Witonsky, Edvard Ehler, Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu, Cynthia Beall, Amha Gebremedhin, Rem Sukernik, Gerd Utermann, Jonathan Pritchard, Graham Coop, and Anna Di Rienzo (63-80)
5 Working Toward a Synthesis of Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Data for Inferring African Population History--Laura B. Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, and Sarah A. Tishkoff (81-100)
PART II: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN GENOME (101-104)
6 Uniquely Human Evolution of Sialic Acid Genetics and Biology--Ajit Varki (105-126)
7 Bioenergetics, the Origins of Complexity, and the Ascent of Man-Douglas C. Wallace (127-146)
8 Genome-wide Patterns of Population Structure and Admixture Among Hispanic/Latino Populations--Katarzyna Bryc, Christopher Velez, Tatiana Karafet, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Andy Reynolds, Adam Auton, Michael Hammer, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Harry Ostrer (147-166)
9 Human Skin Pigmentation as an Adaptation to UV Radiation--Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin (167-184)
10 Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome--John C. Avise (185-204)
PART III: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE UNIQUENESS OF BEING HUMAN (205-210)
11 How Grandmother Effects Plus Individual Variation in Frailty Shape Fertility and Mortality: Guidance from Human-Chimpanzee Comparisons--Kristen Hawkes (211-230)
12 Gene–Culture Coevolution in the Age of Genomics--Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Joseph Henrich (231-256)
13 The Cognitive Niche: Coevolution of Intelligence, Sociality, and Language--Steven Pinker (257-274)
14 A Role for Relaxed Selection in the Evolution of the Language Capacity--Terrence W. Deacon (275-292)
15 Adaptive Specializations, Social Exchange, and the Evolution of Human Intelligence--Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett, and John Tooby (293-318)
16 The Difference of Being Human: Morality--Francisco J. Ayala (319-340)
References (341-392)
Index (393-412)