Progress in population genetics and human evolution. Proceedings of the workshop on Mathematical population genetics, held at the IMA, Minnesota, MN, USA, January 24--28, 1994 (Q679021)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Stoneking, Mark}, Recent african origin of human mitochondrial DNA: Review of the evidence and current status of the hypothesis, 1-13 [Zbl 0900.92114] \textit{Harding, Rosalind M.}, Lines of descent from mitochondrial eve: An evolutionary look at coalescence, 15-31 [Zbl 0900.92111] \textit{Ward, R. H.}, Phylogeography of human MTDNA: An amerindian perspective, 33-53 [Zbl 0900.92112] \textit{Rogers, Alan R.}, Population structure and modern human origins, 55-79 [Zbl 0892.92016] \textit{Weiss, Gunter; Henking, Andreas; von Haeseler, Arndt}, Distribution of pairwise differences in growing populations, 81-95 [Zbl 1053.62579] \textit{O'Connell, Neil}, Branching and inference in population genetics, 97-106 [Zbl 0882.62112] \textit{Marjoram, Paul; Donnelly, Peter}, Human demography and the time since mitochondrial Eve, 107-131 [Zbl 0892.92014] \textit{Schaeffer, Stephen W.}, Molecular population genetics of a phenotypically monomorphic protein in drosophila, 133-148 [Zbl 0900.92115] \textit{Tajima, Fumio}, Estimation of the amount of DNA polymorphism and statistical tests of the neutral mutation hypothesis based on DNA polymorphism, 149-164 [Zbl 1053.62575] \textit{Griffiths, Robert C.; Tavaré, Simon}, Computational methods for the coalescent, 165-182 [Zbl 0893.92021] \textit{Kuhner, Mary K.; Yamato, Jon; Felsenstein, Joseph}, Applications of Metropolis-Hastings genealogy sampling, 183-192 [Zbl 0892.92013] \textit{Sawyer, Stanley A.}, Estimating selection and mutation rates from a random field model for polymorphic sites, 193-205 [Zbl 0882.62113] \textit{Kaplan, N. L.; Weir, B. S.}, The use of linkage disequilibrium for estimating the recombination fraction between a marker and a disease gene, 207-219 [Zbl 0900.92105] \textit{Clark, Andrew G.}, Theory and applications of RAPD-PCR: Mispriming, 221-229 [Zbl 0892.92008] \textit{Herbots, Hilde M.}, The structured coalescent, 231-255 [Zbl 0907.92018] \textit{Griffiths, Robert C.; Marjoram, Paul}, An ancestral recombination graph, 257-270 [Zbl 0893.92020] \textit{Golding, G. Brian}, The effect of purifying selection on genealogies, 271-285 [Zbl 0900.92113] \textit{Dawson, D. A.}, Hierarchical and mean-field stepping stone models, 287-298 [Zbl 0897.60071] \textit{Neuhauser, Claudia; Krone, Stephen M.; Kang, Hyun-Chung}, A note on the stepping stone model with extinction and recolonization, 299-307 [Zbl 0892.92015] \textit{Ethier, S. N.}, On the normal-selection model, 309-320 [Zbl 0912.92020] \textit{Taib, Ziad}, Branching processes and evolution, 321-329 [Zbl 0892.92019]