Paul Verdu
Biographic Data
| ID | 213755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Verdu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Verdu |
| SIGNATURE | VERDU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6828-268X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inferring linguistic transmission between generations at the scale of individuals
Historical linguistics strongly benefited from recent methodological advances inspired by phylogenetics. Nevertheless, no available method uses contemporaneous within-population linguistic diversity to reconstruct the history of human populations. Here, we developed an approach inspired from population genetics to perform historical linguistic inferences from linguistic data sampled at the individual scale, within a population. We built four with…
Complex genetic admixture histories reconstructed with Approximate Bayesian Computations
Admixture is a fundamental evolutionary process that has influenced genetic patterns in numerous species. Maximum-likelihood approaches based on allele frequencies and linkage-disequilibrium have been extensively used to infer admixture processes from genome-wide datasets, mostly in human populations. Nevertheless, complex admixture histories, beyond one or two pulses of admixture, remain methodologically challenging to reconstruct. We develop an…
Sociocultural Behavior and Human Genetic Diversity
By studying human genetic diversity at the worldwide and regional geographical scales, population geneticists try to understand the origins, the past migrations, and the biological evolution of our species. Natural selection, demography, and sociocultural behaviors (in complex interaction with one another) are the main forces that have influenced human genetic‐diversity patterns. In particular, sociocultural behaviors regarding preferred or forbi…
Genomic perspectives on the history and evolutionary ecology of tropical rainforest occupation by humans
Post marital residence behaviours shape genetic variation in hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations from Central Africa
The evolution of the sociocultural behaviours determining lineage transmission and post marital residence rules in human societies has been the subject of intense debates in cultural anthropology and ethnology. Population genetics paradigms and methods can provide new insights into the past mobility behaviour of spouse and their influence on the genetic diversity patterns observed today among communities and populations. Here, we review, for a no…
Perspectives de la génétique humaine sur l’origine et la diversité des populations pygmées d’Afrique centrale
Aujourd’hui, les outils de la génétique des populations sont communément utilisés pour décrire la diversité biologique des populations humaines à travers le monde et pour tenter de reconstruire l’histoire du peuplement humain. Récemment, plusieurs études se sont attachées à reconstruire l’origine et l’histoire démographique des populations dites pygmées et de leurs voisins non-pygmées en Afrique centrale, à partir de données génétiques. Nous prés…
African Pygmies, What's Behind a Name
By combining past and current knowledge regarding both evolutionary and cultural aspects, we have shown how the category “Pygmy” can be misleading when used to describe culturally, morphologically and biologically heterogeneous populations. However, when appropriately used, this same term can be successfully considered to address numerous questions of fundamental importance for the understanding of human evolution in Central Africa. Caution invok…
African Pygmies, What’s Behind a Name
African Pygmies, What’s Behind a Name? Paul Verdu and Giovanni Destro-Bisol Keywords African Pygmy, Genetic Diversity, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Pygmy Stature, Linguistics, Evolution, Adaptation, Interdisciplinary Perspectives Numerous populations spread out across Central Africa were named Pygmies by Western explorers, since the 19th century, in reference to the mythical Pygmy population from Homer (“A people of short statu…
Indirect evidence for the genetic determination of short stature in African Pygmies
Central African Pygmy populations are known to be the shortest human populations worldwide. Many evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain this short stature: adaptation to food limitations, climate, forest density, or high mortality rates. However, such hypotheses are difficult to test given the lack of long‐term surveys and demographic data. Whether the short stature observed nowadays in African Pygmy populations as compared to thei…
Can Life History Trade-Offs Explain the Evolution of Short Stature in Human Pygmies? A Response to Migliano et al. (2007)
Walker et al. ["Growth rates and life histories in twenty-two small-scale societies," Am. J. Hum. Biol. 18:295-311 (2006)] used life history theory to develop an innovative explanation for human diversity in stature. Short stature could have been selected for in some human populations as a result of the advantage of an earlier growth cessation and earlier reproduction in a context of high mortality. Migliano et al. ["Life history trade-offs expla…
Indirect evidence for the genetic determination of short stature in African Pygmies
Central African Pygmy populations are known to be the shortest human populations worldwide. Many evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain this short stature: adaptation to food limitations, climate, forest density, or high mortality rates. However, such hypotheses are difficult to test given the lack of long‐term surveys and demographic data. Whether the short stature observed nowadays in African Pygmy populations as compared to thei…
Genomic perspectives on the history and evolutionary ecology of tropical rainforest occupation by humans
African Pygmies, What's Behind a Name
By combining past and current knowledge regarding both evolutionary and cultural aspects, we have shown how the category “Pygmy” can be misleading when used to describe culturally, morphologically and biologically heterogeneous populations. However, when appropriately used, this same term can be successfully considered to address numerous questions of fundamental importance for the understanding of human evolution in Central Africa. Caution invok…
Post marital residence behaviours shape genetic variation in hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations from Central Africa
The evolution of the sociocultural behaviours determining lineage transmission and post marital residence rules in human societies has been the subject of intense debates in cultural anthropology and ethnology. Population genetics paradigms and methods can provide new insights into the past mobility behaviour of spouse and their influence on the genetic diversity patterns observed today among communities and populations. Here, we review, for a no…
Can Life History Trade-Offs Explain the Evolution of Short Stature in Human Pygmies? A Response to Migliano et al. (2007)
Walker et al. ["Growth rates and life histories in twenty-two small-scale societies," Am. J. Hum. Biol. 18:295-311 (2006)] used life history theory to develop an innovative explanation for human diversity in stature. Short stature could have been selected for in some human populations as a result of the advantage of an earlier growth cessation and earlier reproduction in a context of high mortality. Migliano et al. ["Life history trade-offs expla…
Indirect evidence for the genetic determination of short stature in African Pygmies
Central African Pygmy populations are known to be the shortest human populations worldwide. Many evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain this short stature: adaptation to food limitations, climate, forest density, or high mortality rates. However, such hypotheses are difficult to test given the lack of long‐term surveys and demographic data. Whether the short stature observed nowadays in African Pygmy populations as compared to thei…
Perspectives de la génétique humaine sur l’origine et la diversité des populations pygmées d’Afrique centrale
Aujourd’hui, les outils de la génétique des populations sont communément utilisés pour décrire la diversité biologique des populations humaines à travers le monde et pour tenter de reconstruire l’histoire du peuplement humain. Récemment, plusieurs études se sont attachées à reconstruire l’origine et l’histoire démographique des populations dites pygmées et de leurs voisins non-pygmées en Afrique centrale, à partir de données génétiques. Nous prés…
African Pygmies, What's Behind a Name
By combining past and current knowledge regarding both evolutionary and cultural aspects, we have shown how the category “Pygmy” can be misleading when used to describe culturally, morphologically and biologically heterogeneous populations. However, when appropriately used, this same term can be successfully considered to address numerous questions of fundamental importance for the understanding of human evolution in Central Africa. Caution invok…
African Pygmies, What’s Behind a Name
African Pygmies, What’s Behind a Name? Paul Verdu and Giovanni Destro-Bisol Keywords African Pygmy, Genetic Diversity, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Pygmy Stature, Linguistics, Evolution, Adaptation, Interdisciplinary Perspectives Numerous populations spread out across Central Africa were named Pygmies by Western explorers, since the 19th century, in reference to the mythical Pygmy population from Homer (“A people of short statu…
Post marital residence behaviours shape genetic variation in hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations from Central Africa
The evolution of the sociocultural behaviours determining lineage transmission and post marital residence rules in human societies has been the subject of intense debates in cultural anthropology and ethnology. Population genetics paradigms and methods can provide new insights into the past mobility behaviour of spouse and their influence on the genetic diversity patterns observed today among communities and populations. Here, we review, for a no…
Genomic perspectives on the history and evolutionary ecology of tropical rainforest occupation by humans
Sociocultural Behavior and Human Genetic Diversity
By studying human genetic diversity at the worldwide and regional geographical scales, population geneticists try to understand the origins, the past migrations, and the biological evolution of our species. Natural selection, demography, and sociocultural behaviors (in complex interaction with one another) are the main forces that have influenced human genetic‐diversity patterns. In particular, sociocultural behaviors regarding preferred or forbi…
Complex genetic admixture histories reconstructed with Approximate Bayesian Computations
Admixture is a fundamental evolutionary process that has influenced genetic patterns in numerous species. Maximum-likelihood approaches based on allele frequencies and linkage-disequilibrium have been extensively used to infer admixture processes from genome-wide datasets, mostly in human populations. Nevertheless, complex admixture histories, beyond one or two pulses of admixture, remain methodologically challenging to reconstruct. We develop an…
Inferring linguistic transmission between generations at the scale of individuals
Historical linguistics strongly benefited from recent methodological advances inspired by phylogenetics. Nevertheless, no available method uses contemporaneous within-population linguistic diversity to reconstruct the history of human populations. Here, we developed an approach inspired from population genetics to perform historical linguistic inferences from linguistic data sampled at the individual scale, within a population. We built four with…
Geography (9 works) · Biology (7 works) · Forensic and Genetic Research (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Evolutionary biology (4 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (4 works)