Simulating Human Origins and Evolution (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 42) - Softcover

Book 12 of 52: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

Wessen, K. P.

 
9780521397995: Simulating Human Origins and Evolution (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 42)
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ISBN 10: 0521397995 ISBN 13: 9780521397995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description

Computer simulations of evolutionary and genetic processes can help us understand more about the earliest origins of humankind. In this book, Ken Wessen shows graduate students and researchers in human evolution, genetics and biological anthropology how to unpick the complex interactions using novel simulation software, made available on an associated website.

About the Author

Ken Wessen has PhDs in both Theoretical Physics and Human Evolution and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Visualisation. He currently works in quantitative finance, and is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521397995
ISBN 13 
9780521397995
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
258

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