Frank B Livingstone
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85564 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frank B Livingstone |
| NOMBRES | Frank B |
| APELLIDO | Livingstone |
| FIRMA | LIVINGSTONE F B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 483 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1958 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Sociobiology
In the blood
In this volume, which developed out of a Wenner-Gren Conference held in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in 1992, the editors and chapter authors advocate a politicaleconomic approach to human biology.They suggest that this approach is a more powerful model for understanding human biological variation than an adaptability approach, and also argue that it has the added advantage of potentially acting to reintegrate biological and cultural anthropology.The …
In the blood
Phylogenies and the forces of evolution
The construction of phylogenetic trees from gene frequency data assumes that a history of binary fissioning of populations has been the major cause of genetic variation. However, in many areas of the world human populations have been relatively stable with local gene flow. This population history is closer to an isolation by distance model. It was modelled by a simulation of gene frequency changes in a linear sequence of 50 stable populations wit…
On the Origin of Syphilis
Who gave whom hemoglobin S
The hypothesis that three separate mutations to the β S -globin gene have occurred in Africa in challenged. The distributions of the β S and other β-globin haplotypes and a simulation of the diffusion of the β S gene are presented and argued to be more in accord with the rapid diffusion of a single mutant that by recombination and gene conversion now occurs on several different haplotypes
Biological Anthropology
Frequencies of Hemoglobin Variants
Haemoglobin variation is central to many studies of molecular and biochemical genetics, population genetics and anthropology. This synthesis of information has been written by an international authority on the field
Physical
Redefining Race
Analysis of physical anthropology textbooks published in the United States in the years 1932-79 reveals a significant decline in support for the race concept, expecially in the 1970s. Before 1970 the great majority of texts expressed the view that races exist and that the race concept is a valid tool for the description and study of human variation. In the 1970s an increasing proportion of texts rejected the race concept, with the no-race view be…
Incest Avoidance as a Function of Environment and Heredity [and Comments and Reply]
Although it has repeatedly been demonstrated that behavior is best understood as a function of the interrelatedness of nature and nurture, many social scientists persist in posing these determinants adversatively and then contend that genes and biology are, at best, minor determinants of behavior. Analysis in incest avoidance illustrates the inadequacy of efforts to reduce to irrelevance genetic determinants. Man and many other species exhibit st…
Genealogical Structures and Consanguineous Marriage [and Comments and Replies]
It has been shown that mean age differences between genealogical relatives can take on a stable structure. It has further been discovered that in some populations the age differences among relatives preclude systematic sister exchange and bilateral first-and/or second-cross-cousin marriage. These discoveries have been generalized by some who argue that systematic sister exchange and bilateral cross-cousin marriage cannot occur in populations such…
Natural selection and the origin and maintenance of standard genetic marker systems
Natural selection has always been assumed to be the major force of evolution, but its presence has been difficult to demonstrate. A review of the evidence for selective differences among genotypes for most human genetic polymorphisms indicates there is little of a direct nature. Indirect theoretical evidence, however, seems to support a major role for natural selection, and it does not seem to support the hypothesis that most amino acid substitut…
Sapienization and Speech [and Comments and Reply]
Middle Pleistocene erectus skulls differ from ours in fifteen discrete traits, primary among which are their smaller cranial capacities, flatter and more strongly constructed braincases, larger and more anteriorly projecting faces, and inflected mastoid processes. Back to 40,000 years ago all fossil hominids are of the sapiens desing, while all those clearly older show the erectus pattern. Except for their large brains, Neandertals are of the ere…
Natural Selection and Morphological Variability
Two hypotheses concerning the influence of natural selection intensity on intra- and interpopulational variability of metric characteristics of the human skull ar tested. Using data on 58 series from Europe and its environs dating from Neolithic to modern times, it has been found that with the decline of the decline of the intensity of operation of natural selection (1) intragroup variability increases, (2) intergroup variability decreases, and (…
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
Reply to Goldberg
Human populations, genetic variation, and evolution
General, Applied and Theoretical
On the Phylogenesis of the Speech Function
Did the Australopithecines Sing
Genetic drift and polygenic inheritance
The interaction of random gene drift and selection was studied by computer simulation for two quantitative traits, which were considered to approximate stature and skin color differences in human populations. The expected effects of gene drift, fixation of alleles and reduction of genotypic and phenotypic variances, were found in the simulation. Stabilizing selection, which seems to be the type of selection operating on these traits, was found to…
Physical Anthropology
An analysis of the ABO blood group clines in Europe
With estimates of the fitnesses of the genotypes and selection by incompatibility for the ABO locus which seem reasonable given the state of knowledge, a computer model has been developed to replicate the clines of the A and B genes in Europe. With a fitness change in the BB and BO genotypes of as little as 0.5%, the differences in the frequencies in East and West Europe can be maintained at equilibrium. Appreciable changes in the amount of migra…
Evolution of quantitative characteristics which are determined by several additive loci
For several models of polygenic traits due to equal and additive alleles the rate of change in allele frequency was estimated. With an amount of selection comparable to the present in several modern studies, evolution appears to be quite fast; so that the rapid change from Neanderthal to modern man could have been accomplished in a very short time evolutionarily speaking
On the Non-Existence of Human Races
Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa1
Peer Reviewed
Redefining Race
Analysis of physical anthropology textbooks published in the United States in the years 1932-79 reveals a significant decline in support for the race concept, expecially in the 1970s. Before 1970 the great majority of texts expressed the view that races exist and that the race concept is a valid tool for the description and study of human variation. In the 1970s an increasing proportion of texts rejected the race concept, with the no-race view be…
Did the Australopithecines Sing
Genetics, Ecology and the Origins of Incest and Exogamy
The biological consequences of inbreeding are often advanced as the cause of the evolution of incest and exogamy in human societies. This paper attempts to show that genetic analysis does not support such a conclusion. An alternate reconstruction of the origins of incest and exogamy based on cultural and populational consequences of these phenomena is proposed to show that reconstructions of human cultural evolution can contribute to the interpre…
Reconstructing Man's Pliocene Pongid Ancestor
On the Origin of Syphilis
Incest Avoidance as a Function of Environment and Heredity [and Comments and Reply]
Although it has repeatedly been demonstrated that behavior is best understood as a function of the interrelatedness of nature and nurture, many social scientists persist in posing these determinants adversatively and then contend that genes and biology are, at best, minor determinants of behavior. Analysis in incest avoidance illustrates the inadequacy of efforts to reduce to irrelevance genetic determinants. Man and many other species exhibit st…
Sapienization and Speech [and Comments and Reply]
Middle Pleistocene erectus skulls differ from ours in fifteen discrete traits, primary among which are their smaller cranial capacities, flatter and more strongly constructed braincases, larger and more anteriorly projecting faces, and inflected mastoid processes. Back to 40,000 years ago all fossil hominids are of the sapiens desing, while all those clearly older show the erectus pattern. Except for their large brains, Neandertals are of the ere…
Natural Selection and Morphological Variability
Two hypotheses concerning the influence of natural selection intensity on intra- and interpopulational variability of metric characteristics of the human skull ar tested. Using data on 58 series from Europe and its environs dating from Neolithic to modern times, it has been found that with the decline of the decline of the intensity of operation of natural selection (1) intragroup variability increases, (2) intergroup variability decreases, and (…
A Further Analysis of Purum Social Structure1
Blood Groups and Ancestry
Genealogical Structures and Consanguineous Marriage [and Comments and Replies]
It has been shown that mean age differences between genealogical relatives can take on a stable structure. It has further been discovered that in some populations the age differences among relatives preclude systematic sister exchange and bilateral first-and/or second-cross-cousin marriage. These discoveries have been generalized by some who argue that systematic sister exchange and bilateral cross-cousin marriage cannot occur in populations such…
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
Evolution of quantitative characteristics which are determined by several additive loci
For several models of polygenic traits due to equal and additive alleles the rate of change in allele frequency was estimated. With an amount of selection comparable to the present in several modern studies, evolution appears to be quite fast; so that the rapid change from Neanderthal to modern man could have been accomplished in a very short time evolutionarily speaking
The founder effect and deleterious genes
During the rapid growth of a population from a few founders, a single deleterious gene in a founder can attain an appreciable frequency in later generations. A computer simulation, which has the population double itself in early generations, indicates a lethal could attain a frequency of 0.1. Since deleterious recessive genes are eliminated from large populations at a very slow rate, variations in their frequencies in present major human populati…
The distribution of several blood group genes in Liberia, the Ivory Coast and Upper Volta
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
Population Genetics and Population Ecology
Natural selection and the origin and maintenance of standard genetic marker systems
Natural selection has always been assumed to be the major force of evolution, but its presence has been difficult to demonstrate. A review of the evidence for selective differences among genotypes for most human genetic polymorphisms indicates there is little of a direct nature. Indirect theoretical evidence, however, seems to support a major role for natural selection, and it does not seem to support the hypothesis that most amino acid substitut…
A Formal Analysis of Prescriptive Marriage Systems among the Australian Aborigines
Frequencies of Hemoglobin Variants
Haemoglobin variation is central to many studies of molecular and biochemical genetics, population genetics and anthropology. This synthesis of information has been written by an international authority on the field
General, Applied and Theoretical
On the Phylogenesis of the Speech Function
Mathematical Models of Marriage Systems
The blood groups, abnormal hemoglobins, and hemoglobin values of pregnant women in Liberia
No Abstract
Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa1
Peer Reviewed
A Further Analysis of Purum Social Structure1
A Formal Analysis of Prescriptive Marriage Systems among the Australian Aborigines
The distribution of several blood group genes in Liberia, the Ivory Coast and Upper Volta
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
The blood groups, abnormal hemoglobins, and hemoglobin values of pregnant women in Liberia
No Abstract
Physical Anthropology
Reconstructing Man's Pliocene Pongid Ancestor
Population Genetics and Population Ecology
On the Non-Existence of Human Races
Blood Groups and Ancestry
Mathematical Models of Marriage Systems
Controversy Regarding Gigantopithecus
An analysis of the ABO blood group clines in Europe
With estimates of the fitnesses of the genotypes and selection by incompatibility for the ABO locus which seem reasonable given the state of knowledge, a computer model has been developed to replicate the clines of the A and B genes in Europe. With a fitness change in the BB and BO genotypes of as little as 0.5%, the differences in the frequencies in East and West Europe can be maintained at equilibrium. Appreciable changes in the amount of migra…
Evolution of quantitative characteristics which are determined by several additive loci
For several models of polygenic traits due to equal and additive alleles the rate of change in allele frequency was estimated. With an amount of selection comparable to the present in several modern studies, evolution appears to be quite fast; so that the rapid change from Neanderthal to modern man could have been accomplished in a very short time evolutionarily speaking
The founder effect and deleterious genes
During the rapid growth of a population from a few founders, a single deleterious gene in a founder can attain an appreciable frequency in later generations. A computer simulation, which has the population double itself in early generations, indicates a lethal could attain a frequency of 0.1. Since deleterious recessive genes are eliminated from large populations at a very slow rate, variations in their frequencies in present major human populati…
Physical Anthropology
Genetics, Ecology and the Origins of Incest and Exogamy
The biological consequences of inbreeding are often advanced as the cause of the evolution of incest and exogamy in human societies. This paper attempts to show that genetic analysis does not support such a conclusion. An alternate reconstruction of the origins of incest and exogamy based on cultural and populational consequences of these phenomena is proposed to show that reconstructions of human cultural evolution can contribute to the interpre…
Physical Anthropology
Genetic drift and polygenic inheritance
The interaction of random gene drift and selection was studied by computer simulation for two quantitative traits, which were considered to approximate stature and skin color differences in human populations. The expected effects of gene drift, fixation of alleles and reduction of genotypic and phenotypic variances, were found in the simulation. Stabilizing selection, which seems to be the type of selection operating on these traits, was found to…
Did the Australopithecines Sing
Human populations, genetic variation, and evolution
General, Applied and Theoretical
On the Phylogenesis of the Speech Function
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
Reply to Goldberg
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