• Human Population Genetics: An Overview
• 20 min
  1. Modern human origins

  • Prof. Richard Klein
• 48 min
  2. History and geography of human genetic diversity I

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 40 min
  3. History and geography of human genetic diversity II

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 38 min
  4. Cultural evolution

  • Prof. Marcus Feldman
• 64 min
  5. The human genomes

  • Prof. Gil McVean
• 39 min
  6. Human population structure

  • Prof. Noah Rosenberg
• 49 min
  7. The signature of local adaptations in human polymorphism data

  • Dr. Anna Di Rienzo
• The Human Genome Project
• 46 min
  8. The HapMap project

  • Prof. Andrew Clark
• 41 min
  9. Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA variations

  • Prof. Toomas Kivisild
• 51 min
  10. Ethical issues in human population genetics

  • Prof. Henry Greely
• Important Phenotypic Phenomena
• 66 min
  11. Evolution: how genes and their variation got here

  • Prof. Kenneth Weiss
• 45 min
  12. The genetic component to diabetes

  • Dr. Nancy Cox
• 56 min
  13. Genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

  • Prof. Jeffrey Weitzel
• 53 min
  14. Colorectal cancer and the rare variant hypothesis

  • Prof. Sir Walter Bodmer
• 37 min
  15. Genetic diseases in the Jewish population

  • Prof. Neil Risch
• 48 min
  16. The genetics of French Canadians

  • Dr. Bernard Brais
  • Dr. Bertrand Desjardins
  • Prof. Damian Labuda
  • Dr. Marc St-Hilaire
  • Prof. Marc Tremblay
  • Prof. Helene Vezina
• Historical and Geographical Genetic Variation
• 33 min
  17. Human genetic variation of Africa

  • Prof. Joanna Mountain
• 37 min
  18. Genetics of Pakistani populations in an Asian and global context

  • Prof. S. Qasim Mehdi
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 32 min
  19. The genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

  • Dr. Piri Welcsh
• 37 min
  20. Historical and geographical genetic variation: Europe

  • Prof. Antonio Torroni
• 40 min
  21. Linguistic evolution

  • Dr. Merritt Ruhlen
• 37 min
  22. Human microsatellite and minisatellite DNA polymorphisms

  • Dr. James Weber
• 41 min
  23. Human population genetics: lifespan

  • Prof. Kaare Christensen
• 24 min
  24. History and geography of human genetic diversity III

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 33 min
  25. Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history

  • Prof. Yoshihito Niimura
  • Prof. Masatoshi Nei
• 34 min
  26. Natural selection and sequence polymorphism

  • Prof. Austin Hughes
• 32 min
  27. Human Y chromosome phylogenetics and phylogeography

  • Prof. Peter Underhill
• 63 min
  28. The peopling of the Americas: new insights from genetic studies

  • Dr. Theodore Schurr

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. The human family tree
3. Modern vs. pre-modern human skulls and faces
4. The anatomic origin of the modern humans skull
5. The scattering of anatomically modern humans
6. The effect of the rapid spread of modern Africans
7. Evidence for appearance of modern behavior
8. Questions regarding findings at Blombos cave
9. Archaeological records of ornaments in Africa
10. Advances in hunting-gathering and fishing
11. Explanations for modern Africans altered behavior

Topics Covered

• Human evolution
• Anatomical differences between Neanderthals and modern humans
• African origin of modern human anatomy
• Subsequent African origin of modern human behavior, including art and jewellery
• Fate of the Neanderthals and other non-modern humans
• Possibility that a genetic change prompted the modern human expansion from Africa

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Series:

• Human Population Genetics I

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Richard Klein has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.