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Alan R. Rogers
Researcher at University of Utah
Publications - 103
Citations - 12630
Alan R. Rogers is an academic researcher from University of Utah. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Population size. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 96 publications receiving 12084 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan R. Rogers include University of New Mexico & University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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Population growth makes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic differences.
Alan R. Rogers,Henry Harpending +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present histograms showing the relative frequencies of pairs of individuals who differ by i sites, where i = 0, 1,.... In this distribution an episode of growth generates a wave that travels to the right, traversing 1 unit of the horizontal axis in each 1/2u generations, where u is the mutation rate.
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Genetic evidence for a pleistocene population explosion.
TL;DR: It is inferred that a major expansion of the human population occurred during the late Pleistocene, because a simple model of population history that assumes that a population grows (or shrinks) suddenly from female size N0 toFemale size N1 is studied.
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Genetic traces of ancient demography
Henry Harpending,Mark A. Batzer,Michael Gurven,Lynn B. Jorde,Alan R. Rogers,Stephen T. Sherry +5 more
TL;DR: This genetic evidence denies any version of the multiregional model of modern human origins and implies instead that the authors' ancestors were effectively a separate species for most of the Pleistocene.
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The Genetic Structure of Ancient Human Populations
TL;DR: A new method of analyzing mtDNA sequences is used that is based on a theory of how mismatch distributions should preserve a record of population expansions and separations in the remote past.
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Does Biology Constrain Culture
TL;DR: A “thought experiment” is employed to demonstrate that neither side of the sociobiology debate is justified in dismissing the arguments of the other.