Author: Birdsell, Joseph B.
Title: Microevolutionary Patterns in Aboriginal Australia: A Gradient Analysis of Clines
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993. orig. cloth. 24x17cm, xviii,469,(4)p, Series: Research Monographs on Human Population Biology.. Textual maps,photos,tables. Minor rubbing. Binding corner bumps. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction and Methodology; Population Structure in Aboriginal Australia; The Family; The Band; The Tribe; Microevolutionary Forces; Mutation; Selection; Rate of Gene Flow; Intergenerational Drift; Founder Effect; Australian Environment; Prehistory in Australia; Greater Australia and the Routes Approaching It; Who Were the Migrants to Greater Australia?;Hypotheses About the Origins of the Australian Aborigines; The Database for this Analysis; Cranial Series; Other Cranial Series; Data on Living Aborigines; Methodology; A Model of Variation in Space; The Problem of Inbreeding in Microevolution; Further Methodological Consideration; A Basis for Gradient Analysis of Clines; Benefits from the Gradient Analysis of Clines; Appendices: Reconstruction of Tribal Sizes in Western Australia;Full-blooded Aborigines Examined in 1952-1954; Full-blooded Aborigines Examined in 1938-1939; Localization of Hrdlicka's Male Crania; Serology; The Clinal Distribution of the Gene A1; The Intrusion of the Gene B into Aboriginal Australia; The Australian Distribution of the Gene N; Frequencies of Genes at the Rhesus Locus; The Distribution of the Gene R1 (CDe); R2, the Second Most Common Variant at the Rh Locus (cDE); The Clinal Distribution of the Gene R0 (cDe); Other Variants at the Rhesus Locus; An Overview of the Clinal Patterns in the Four Major Rhesus Genes; The Phenotypic Frequency of Lewis (a+); The Distribution of the Blood Group P1+ ; Gradient Analysis of Composite Serological Variants; Appendix: A Case of Balanced Polymorphism Involving Sexual Selection;..

Keywords: Human Population Biology, Aboriginals, Australia, Aboriginal Physical, Aborigine Evolution, Aborigines Clines, Demography, Blood Groups, Dental Anthropology