Table Of Contents:
Contributors vii

Figures xi

Tables xii
Foreword xiii
Introduction 1(8)

Shuichi Matsumura

Peter Forster

Part I Out-of-Africa: Where was Paradise?

Where was Paradise? A Simulation Study of the Spread of Early Modern Humans in Heterogeneous Environments 9(10)

Laurent Excoffier

Nicolas Ray

Mathias Currat

Worldwide Genetic Patterns in Human Population Genetics 19(8)

Andrea Manica

Hua Liu

Franck Prugnolle

Francois Balloux

Following Populations or Molecules? Two Contrasting Approaches and Descriptive Outcomes of Island Colonization Arising from a Similar Knowledge-base 27(10)

Stephen Oppenheimer

Part II What Simulations Tell Us About Complex European (Pre-) histories

Genetic Simulations of Population Interactions during Past Human Expansions in Europe 37(12)

Mathias Currat

Laurent Excoffier

Nicolas Ray

A Combined Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Simulation-based Approach for Inferring the Colonization History of the British Isles 49(10)

William Amos

Howsun Jow

Nigel Burroughs

Social Constraints on Interethnic Marriage/Unions, Differential Reproductive Success and the Spread of `Continental' Y Chromosomes in Early Anglo-Saxon England 59(12)

Mark G. Thomas

Heinrich Harke

Gary German

Michael P.H. Stumpf

Part III Human Dispersal from Asia

The Genetic Prehistory of Madagascar's Female Asian Lineages 71(8)

Peter Forster

Shuichi Matsumura

Matthieu Vizuete-Forster

Petya Belinda Blumbach

Robert Dewar

Modelling Male Prehistory in East Asia using BATWING 79(10)

Yali Xue

Tatiana Zerjal

Weidong Bao

Suling Zhu

Qunfang Shu

Jiujin Xu

Ruofu Du

Songbin Fu

Pu Li

Matthew E. Hurles

Huanming Yang

Chris Tyler-Smith

Genetic Relationships of Human Populations in and around the Japanese Archipelago 89(4)

Saitou Naruya

Reconstruction of the Prehistory of Greenland Eskimos from Genetic Data 93(10)

Shuichi Matsumura

Peter Forster

Part IV Methodological Challenges in Ancestral Inference

Incorporating Environmental Heterogeneity in Spatially-explicit Simulations of Human Genetic Diversity 103(16)

Nicolas Ray

Mathias Currat

Laurent Excoffier

Extreme Population Genetics on Islands 119(6)

Daniel Falush

Ancestral Inference from Microsatellite Data by Sequential Importance Sampling in Subdivided Population Models 125(10)

Robert C. Griffiths

Yvonne J. Griffiths

Joint Determination of Topology, Divergence Time and Immigration in Population Trees 135(20)

Mark A. Beaumont

Estimating Human Demographic Parameters from Genomic SNP Data 155(6)

Rasmus Nielsen

Demography, Ascertainment and the Genealogy of Haplotype Blocks 161(12)

Ian Wilson

Part V Comments from Archaelogists

Archaeology, Genes and Demographic Histories 173(4)

Stephen Shennan

Population Structure and Diversity Indices 177(6)

James Steele

Whither Archaeogenetics? A View from the Trenches 183(10)

Charles Higham

Part VI Experimental Workshop: Do the Existing Methods Really Work?

Can We Really Read History from Genetic Data? 191(2)

Can We Read History from Haplotypes? 193(6)

Henry Harpending
Glossary 199(6)
Index 205