Evolutionary Genetics of African Populations

A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2021) | Viewed by 389

Special Issue Editors

CIBIO-InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, R. Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
Interests: human evolutionary genetics; African populations; genes associated with human adaptation
1. CIBIO-InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
2. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
Interests: linguistic history; southern Africa; language and human genetics; quantitative linguistics; language contact

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the highest time depth of human history and over 2,000 ethnolinguistic groups dwelling in ecosystems as diverse as the Sahara Desert and the Rainforest, Africa occupies a central position in the history of human populations.

In recent years, the development of new analytical methods and genome-wide approaches to study genetic variation in modern and ancient individuals has significantly increased our understanding of human population history, migration, and adaptation to environmental and sociocultural factors. Following these progresses, a multitude of genetic studies on human populations from Africa have produced a considerable amount of new data with an unprecedented level of resolution.

This Special Issue aims at providing a synthesis of current knowledge on African human variation and its evolutionary roots by presenting a collection of reviews and original contributions on topics including population history, gene–culture interactions, domestication, genetic adaptation, genetic disease, and microbiome variation.

Dr. Jorge Rocha
Dr. Anne Maria Fehn
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Human evolutionary genetics;
  • Population history;
  • Domestication;
  • Genetic adaptation;
  • Genetic disease;
  • Migration;
  • Gene-culture co-evolution.

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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