• The Human Genome Project
• 28 min
  1. Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history

  • Prof. Yoshihito Niimura
• 41 min
  2. Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA variations

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

  • Prof. Henry Greely
• Important Phenotypic Phenomena
• 56 min
  4. Genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

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

  • Prof. Sir Walter Bodmer
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 32 min
  6. The genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

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

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

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

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

  • Prof. Kaare Christensen
• 33 min
  11. Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history

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

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

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

  • Dr. Theodore Schurr
• 48 min
  15. History and geography of human genetic diversity I

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

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 24 min
  17. History and geography of human genetic diversity III

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 46 min
  18. The HapMap project

  • Prof. Andrew Clark
• 37 min
  19. Genetic diseases in the Jewish population

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

  • Dr. Bernard Brais
  • Dr. Bertrand Desjardins
  • Prof. Damian Labuda
  • Dr. Marc St-Hilaire
  • Prof. Marc Tremblay
  • Prof. Helene Vezina
• 33 min
  21. Human genetic variation of Africa

  • Prof. Joanna Mountain
• 66 min
  22. Evolution: how genes and their variation got here

  • Prof. Kenneth Weiss
• 20 min
  23. Modern human origins

  • Prof. Richard Klein
• 64 min
  24. The human genomes

  • Prof. Gil McVean
• 49 min
  25. The signature of local adaptations in human polymorphism data

  • Dr. Anna Di Rienzo
• 37 min
  26. Genetics of Pakistani populations in an Asian and global context

  • Prof. S. Qasim Mehdi
• 38 min
  27. Cultural evolution

  • Prof. Marcus Feldman
• 45 min
  28. The genetic component to diabetes

  • Dr. Nancy Cox
• 39 min
  29. Human population structure

  • Prof. Noah Rosenberg

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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

Links

Series:

• Human Population Genetics I

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on May 28, 2025

Financial Disclosures

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