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Human Population Structure

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Advances in Human Genetics

Part of the book series: Advances in Human Genetics ((AHUG,volume 4))

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The study of population genetics has set itself an ambitious goal. The existence of a mathematical theory of evolution (the most elaborate theory in biology) has raised the hope that if accurate measurements are made of the relevant quantities, meaningful constants can be evaluated and the evolutionary process within a species predicted with some degree of precision. Considering the complexity of the processes involved, the multiplicity of intervening factors and of biological systems, this hope may seem, superficially at least, naive. Still, this analysis has proved rewarding, even if sometimes only by predicting orders of magnitude, and interest has been increasing in recent years.

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