Human Evolutionary Genetics

4.0 credits

This course explores human evolution as revealed by data from genetics and genomics. Using principles from evolutionary and population genetics, we will learn how inferences are made about: human origins; the demographic and migration history of human populations; our relationship to, and interactions with, other archaic human species; the forces that have affected the evolution of functional elements in the human genome; the relationship between molecular genetic and phenotypic evolution; the interaction between cultural and biological evolution; and the causes and consequences of genetic and infectious diseases.