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Simulating human origins and evolution /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Simulating human origins and evolution // K.P. Wessen.
remainder title:	Simulating Human Origins & Evolution
Author:	Wessen, K. P.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 241 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Human evolution. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542572
ISBN:	9780511542572 (ebook)

Simulating human origins and evolution /
Wessen, K. P.

Simulating human origins and evolution /Simulating Human Origins & EvolutionK.P. Wessen. - 1 online resource (xv, 241 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;42. - Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;81..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction --1.

The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, are both influenced by a complex of interacting, underlying processes. Computer simulation provides a means of experimenting within an idealised framework to allow aspects of these processes and their interactions to be isolated, controlled, and understood. In this book, computer simulation is used to model migration, extinction, fossilisation, interbreeding, selection and non-hereditary effects in the context of human populations and the observed distribution of fossil and current hominoid species. The simulations described enable the visualisation and study of lineages, genetic diversity in populations, character diversity across species and the accuracy of reconstructions, allowing insights into human evolution and the origins of humankind for graduate students and researchers in the fields of physical anthropology, human evolution, and human genetics.

ISBN: 9780511542572 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

564173
Human evolution.

LC Class. No.: GN281 / .W47 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 599.93/8

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