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- Introduction
- Diversity of life
- Human evolution (1)
- Human specific adaptation
- Understanding adaptaion through evolution
- Artificial selection creates new breeds
- Natural selection
- Positive and negative selection
- DNA sequences for detecting positive selection
- The phylogeny tree
- Nonsynonymous and synonymous mutations
- Nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratio
- Positive selection of the MHC molecule
- Application of NSDS ratio at genome wide scale
- Positive selection in the immune system
- Categorizing by tissue of maximal expression
- Sperm competition
- Evidence of sperm competition in primates
- Human evolution (2)
- Mutations in the human lineage
- Significant genes subjected to positive selection
- Population genetic data
- McDonald-Kreitman test
- Human genome: negative and positive selection
- Selection coefficients
- Selection sweeps
- Escape by recombination
- Selection sweeps pattern in the genome
- Human genomic variation (HapMap) - Chr. 2
- Lactose intolerance
- Lactose intolerance in different populations
- DNA variance and lactose intolerance
- Lactase evolution
- Genome differentiation among populations
- Duffy
- Selection of the CCR5 locus
- FOXP2 and evolution of speech
- Positive selection at the FOXP2 gene (1)
- Frequency spectrum
- Positive selection at the FOXP2 gene (2)
- Body weight and brain size relationship
- Microcephaly
- The ASPM gene
- Evolution of the ASPM gene
- Microcephalin
- Difficulties in detecting adaptations
- Summary
Topics Covered
- Darwin, adaptation and natural selection
- Genome-wide analyses of natural selection in humans using comparative data
- Genome-wide analyses using population genetic data
- Individual genes potentially related to specific adaptations in humans
- Adaptionism in human molecular evolution
Talk Citation
Nielsen, R. (2009, December 28). Human adaptation [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/TSTM7173.Export Citation (RIS)
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Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Rasmus Nielsen has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.