Main description:

Studying human migratory patterns can help us make sense of evolution, biology, linguistics, and so much more.

Human Migration takes readers through population development and their respective origins to create a comprehensive picture of human migratory patterns. This book explores human migration as a major contributor to globalization that facilitates gene flow and the exchange of cultures and languages. It also traces evolutionary success of a hybrid population, the Black Caribs, after their forced relocation from St. Vincent Island to the Bay Islands and Central America.

The volume is split into four sections: Theoretical Overview; Ancient DNA and Migration; Regional Migration; Culture and Migration: and Disease and Migration. This division allows for a seamless transition between a broad range of topics, including molecular genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, history, archaeology, demography, and genetic epidemiology. Assembled by volume editors and migration specialists Maria de Lourdes Munoz-Moreno and Michael H. Crawford, Human
Migration creates an opportunity for researchers, professionals, and students from different fields to review and discuss the most recent trends and challenges surrounding migration, genetics, and anthropology.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction, Maria de Lourdes Munoz-Moreno and Michael H. Crawford

Theoretical Overview
Chapter 2: Genomic Insights into the Out-of-Africa Dispersal(s) of Modern Humans, Mark Stoneking
Chapter 3: Unangan (Aleut) Migrations: Causes and Consequences, Michael H. Crawford, Sarah Alden, Randy David, and Kristine Beaty
Chapter 4: Early Peopling of the Americas: A Paleogenetics Perspective, Constanza de la Fuente, J. Victor Moreno-Mayar, and Maanasa Raghavan

Ancient DNA and Migration
Chapter 5: An Arctic Lens for American Migration: Integrating Genomics, Archaeology and Paleoecology, Dennis H. O'Rourke, Justin Tackney, and Lauren Norman
Chapter 6: Mitochondrial DNA Analysis and Pre-Hispanic Maya Migrations: Languages, and Climate Influence, Maria de Lourdes Munoz-Moreno, Mirna Isabel Ochoa-Lugo, Gerardo Perez-Ramirez, Kristine G. Beaty, Adrian Martinez Meza, and Michael H. Crawford
Chapter 7: Mitochondrial DNA Haplotype Identification of Pre-Hispanic Human Remains Discovered in the Puyil Cave, Tabasco-Mexico, from the Archaic and Classical Periods, Maria Teresa Navarro-Romero, Maria de Lourdes Munoz-Moreno, and Enrique Alcala-Castaneda

Regional Migration
Chapter 8: A Genetic Perspective on the Origin and Migration of the Samoyedic-Speaking Populations from Siberia, Tatiana Karafet, Ludmila P. Osipova, and Michael F. Hammer
Chapter 9: Linguistic Diversity and Human Migrations in Gabon, Franz Manni and John Nerbonne
Chapter 10: Migration Patterns in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Larissa Tarskaia, A.G. Egorova, A.S. Barashkova, S.A. Sukneva, and W. Leonard
Chapter 11: Rapid, Adaptive Human Evolution Facilitated by Admixture in the Americas, Emily T. Norris, Lavanya Rishishwar, and I. King Jordan
Chapter 12: Y-chromosome Diversity in Aztlan Descendants and Its Implications for the History of Central Mexico, R. Gomez, T.G. Schurr, and M.A. Meraz-Rios
Chapter 13: Migration of Garifuna: Evolutionary Success Story, Michael H. Crawford, Christine Phillips-Krawczak, Kristine G. Beaty, and Noel Boaz

Culture and Migration
Chapter 14: Out of Africa, Again: African Migration to Europe in the Twenty-First Century, Majid Hannoum
Chapter 15: Yurimaguas and the Lower Huallaga River Valley: A Biocultural Approach to Migration and Urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia, Randy David and Bartholomew Dean
Chapter 16: Causes of Migration to and from the Ch'orti' Maya Area of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, Brent E. Metz
Chapter 17: Evidence of Human Migration: Xibablba in the Puyil Cave, Puxcatan, Tabasco, Enrique Alcala-Castaneda
Chapter 18: Migration of the Zoques to the Mountain Region of Tabasco: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives, Eladio Terreros-Espinosa

Disease and Migration
Chapter 19: Impact of Human Migration on the Spread of Arboviral Diseases at the US-Mexico Border, Alvaro Diaz-Badillo and Maria de Lourdes Munoz-Moreno
Chapter 20: Major Impact of Massive Migration on Spread of Epidemic Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strains, Igor Mokrousov

Conclusion, Michael H. Crawford and Maria de Lourdes Munoz-Moreno

Index