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In the Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition (2010)
National Research Council (NRC)

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. "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 ." In the Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010.

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In the Light of Evolution Volume IV: The Human Condition

try, we binned the SNPs in the Illumina panel on the basis of the allele frequency in Europeans rather than the global allele frequency to calculate the transformed rank statistics.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank members of the Di Rienzo laboratory, John Novembre, and Molly Przeworski for helpful discussions during the course of this project; and Molly Przeworski for thoughtful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants DK56670 and GM79558 and an International Collaborative Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation (to A.D.R.). A.M.H. was supported in part by American Heart Association Graduate Fellowship 0710189Z and by NIH Genetics and Regulation Training Grant GM07197. G.C. was supported in part by a Sloan Research Fellowship. J.K.P. acknowledges support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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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)