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Anthro 6299 Fall 2005Fri 2–5PM or Tue 12:25–1:45 ST103BProfs. A. Rogers & H. Harpendinghttp://www.anthro.utah.edu/˜rogers/courses.htmlGraduate Seminar: Genetics and Human HistoryDescription Each week, we will discuss several articles and/or book chapters. Come prepared with a setof questions or talking points on each article, so that you can lead the discussion if asked.The course will focus on the question of admixture between early modern humans and archaics, such asNeandertals. We begin with articles that set the stage by summarizing the positions that have been arguedover the past 20 years, and then plunge into the recent population genetics literature.Term paper The term paper is due on the last day of class, should be 10–20 pages, double-spaced, andsupported by at least 15 references from the scientific literature.For advice on writing scientific papers, see Day [1998].Grading Grades will be based on the term paper, class presentations, and discussion.Plagiarism policy Any cheating or plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the course. See sections IIand V of the student code (http://www.admin.utah.edu/ppmanual/8/8-10.html) for details.ContactRogers Room: 206a Stewart; Phone: 581-5529w, 486–6013h; Email: rogers at anthro dot utah dot edu.Harpending Room: 121 Stewart; Phone: 581-3776w; Email: harpend at xmission dot com.Provisional SyllabusEach week one student will choose 2–5 articles (depending on length and difficulty) on that week’s topic.Feel free to choose an article that is not on the list. We will NOT read all the articles listed below.01: Fri Aug 26 Orientation02: Fri Sep 2 Skeletal evidence for admixture1. Smith et al. [1989]2. Trinkaus et al. [2003]3. Duarte et al. [1999]4. Frayer [1992]03: Fri Sep 9 Skeletal evidence against admixture1. Stringer and Andrews [1988]12. Kramer et al. [2001]3. Stringer [2003]4. Pearson [2004]5. Foley [1998]04: Fri Sep 16 Eurasian bottlenecks1. Rogers and Harpending [1992]2. Harpending et al. [1993]3. Rogers and Jorde [1995]4. Adcock et al. [2001]5. Hawks and Wolpoff [2001]6. Jorde et al. [1995]7. Marth et al. [2004]05: Fri Sep 23 Genetic evidence against admixture1. Manderscheid and Rogers [1996]2. Krings et al. [1997]3. Nordborg [1998]4. Serre et al. [2004]5. Caramelli et al. [2003]6. Takahata et al. [2001]7. Yu et al. [2002]06: Fri Sep 30 Genetic evidence for admixture1. Stefansson et al. [2005]2. Hardy et al. [2005]3. Evans et al. [2005]4. Reed et al. [2004]5. Garrigan et al. [2005a]6. Relethford [2001b, pp. 205–211]7. Garrigan et al. [2005b]8. Relethford [1999]9. Relethford [2001a]10. Labuda et al. [2000]11. Culotta [2005]12. Eswaran [2002]13. Eswaran et al. [2005]214. Wang et al. [2004]07: Fri Oct 14 Genetic evidence for admixture08: Fri Oct 21 Genetic evidence for admixture09: Fri Oct 28 Genetic evidence for admixture10: Fri Nov 4 What were Neandertals like?1. Bochrens et al. [2005]2. Richards et al. [2001]11: Fri Nov 11 Detecting admixture I: Deep gene genealogies.1. Wall [2000]2. Barton and Ethridge [2004]12: Fri Nov 18 Detecting admixture II: Linkage disequilibrium1. Reich et al. [2001]2. Wall [1999]3. Toomajian et al. [2003]4. Sabeti et al. [2003]13: Fri Dec 2 Student presentationsReferencesGregory J. Adcock, Elizabeth S. Dennis, Simon Easteal, Gavin A. Huttley, Lars S. Jermiin, W. James Pea-cock, and Alan Thorne. Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians: Implications for modernhuman origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 98(2):537–542, 2001.N. H. Barton and A. M. Ethridge. The effect of selection on gene genealogies. Genetics, 166:1115–1131,2004.Herv´e Bochrens, Doroth´ee G. Drucker, Daniel Billiou, Maryl`ene Patuo-Mathis, and Bernard Vandermeer-sch. Isotopic evidence for diet and subsistence pattern of the Saint-C´esaire I Neanderthal: Review anduse of a multi-source mixing model. Journal of Human Evolution, 49:71–87, 2005.D. Caramelli, C. Lalueza-Fox, C. Vernesi, M. Lari, A. Casoli, F. Mallegni, B. Chiarelli, I. Dupanloup,J. Bertranpetit, G. Barbujani, and G. Bertorelle. Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertalsand 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,USA, 100:6593–6597, 2003.Elizabeth Culotta. Archaic genes in modern people? Science, 308:490–491, 2005.Robert A. Day. How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper. Oryx Press, Phoenix, 5th edition, 1998.3Cidalia Duarte, Joao Mauricio, Paul B. Pettitt, Pedro Souto, Erik Trinkaus, Hans van der Plicht, and JoaoZilhao. The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) andmodern human emergence in Iberia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 96:7604–7609, 1999.Vinayak Eswaran. A diffusion wave out of Africa—the mechanism of the mod-ern human revolution? Current Anthropology, 43:749–774, 2002. URLhttp://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/issues/v43n5/025003/025003.html.Vinayak Eswaran, Henry Harpending, and Alan R. Rogers. Genomics refutes an exclusively African originof humans. Journal of Human Evolution, 49:1–18, 2005.Patrick D. Evans, Sandra L. Gilbert, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Eric J. Vallender, Jeffrey R. Anderson, Leila M.Vaez-Azizi, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Richard R. Hudson, and Bruce T. Lahn. Microcephalin, a gene regulatingbrain size, continues to evolve under positive selection in anatomically modern humans. submitted, 2005.Robert Foley. The context of human genetic evolution. Genome Research, 8(4):339–347, April 1998.David W. Frayer. The persistence of Neanderthal features in post-Neanderthal Europeans. In G. Br¨auerand F.H. Smith, editors, Continuity or Replacement? Controversies in Homo sapiens Evolution, pages179–188. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1992.D. Garrigan, Z. Mobasher, S. B. Kingan, J. A. Wilder, and M. F. Hammer. Deep haplotype divergence andlong-range linkage disequilibrium at Xp21.1 provide evidence that humans descend from a structuredancestral population. Genetics, x:x, 2005a.Daniel Garrigan, Zahra Mobasher, Tesa Severson, Jason A. Wilder, and Michael F. Hammer. Evidence forarchaic Asian ancestry on the human X chromosome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22:189–192,2005b.J. Hardy, A. Pittman, A. Myers, K. Gwinn-Hardy, H. C. Fung, R. de Silva, M. Hutton, and J. Duckworth.Evidence suggesting that Homo neanderthalensis contributed the H2 MAPT haplotype to Homo sapiens.Biochemical Society Transactions, 33:582–585, 2005.Henry C. Harpending, Stephen T. Sherry,


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