Sentences with phrase «about human genetic diversity»
This makes him able to explain and to mount a critique of what science today is saying about the biological basis of «race» — in other words, about human genetic diversity.
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Although studying genetic diversity in African populations tells us a great deal about human history, there is even more to learn by juxtaposing the genetic diversity with the diversity of heritable traits (phenotypes).
Revolutionise scientific understanding of the population biology of infectious disease, by providing an unprecedented level of information about genetic diversity, population structure, evolutionary selection, demography and gene flow, and by enabling this to be linked to information about the behaviour and migration patterns of human and pathogen populations.
«The high - resolution portrait of human genetic diversity afforded by these studies allows new inferences to be made about our migration out of Africa,» write Serena Tucci and Joshua Akey in an accompanying News & Views article.
The notion of family is seminal in human genetics for many reasons: the inheritance and genetic basis of traits is discerned from family patterns; arguments about heritability and nature versus nurture are derived from studies of family relationships; population genetic structure and social diversity are determined by patterns of mate choice; genetic information is typically delivered in the context of families.