Theses - Biological Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle-Late Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya: phytolith-based evidence from the site of Prospect Farm
(2020-05-16)The Central Rift Valley of East Africa has proven to be a key region for our understanding the emergence and diversification of our species. Genetic, fossil, archaeological, and palaeoclimatic evidence suggest that mosaic ... -
Investigating the role of demography and selection in genome scale patterns of common and rare variant diversity in humans
(2019-11-30)In the last decade, an unprecedented increase in the availability of whole genome sequence (WGS) data has reshaped the field of human evolutionary genomics. However, many earlier sequencing projects like the HapMap and ... -
Western Gorilla Social Structure and Inter-Group Dynamics
(2019-10-26)The study of western gorilla social behaviour has primarily focused on family groups, with research on inter-group interactions usually limited to the interactions of a small number of habituated groups or those taking ... -
Immune-driven positive and balancing selection in human populations
(2019-07-19)This thesis examines the evidence for positive and balancing selection on immune genes in 388 individuals grouped into thirteen geographically diverse populations. The data are high coverage whole genome sequences, many ...