Dan Dediu

An Introduction to Genetics for Language Scientists

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to genetics aimed at language scientists, with carefully selected concepts, methods and findings exploring language and speech.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781107001299
• ISBN-10: 1107001293
• Artikelnr.: 41641901

Autorenporträt

Dan Dediu is Senior Investigator in the Language and Genetics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Nature, nurture, and heritability
3. The molecular bases of genetics
4. Effects of genes on phenotype
5. Linkage disequilibrium and its role in finding genes
6. What do genes actually do?
7. The way forward: exome and genome sequencing
8. Population and evolutionary genetics
9. Interactions between genetic and cultural evolution
10. Conclusions, topics not covered, future directions
Appendix. The computer code
A.1. Simulating contingency tables
A.2. Log Odds Ratio
A.3. Simulating genetic drift
Notes
References
Glossary
Index.