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Marcus W. Feldman
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 658
Citations - 57446
Marcus W. Feldman is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Niche construction. The author has an hindex of 97, co-authored 638 publications receiving 52656 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcus W. Feldman include Philippine Institute for Development Studies & Xi'an Jiaotong University.
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Genetic Structure of Human Populations
Noah A. Rosenberg,Jonathan K. Pritchard,James L. Weber,Howard M. Cann,Kenneth K. Kidd,Lev A. Zhivotovsky,Marcus W. Feldman +6 more
TL;DR: General agreement of genetic and predefined populations suggests that self-reported ancestry can facilitate assessments of epidemiological risks but does not obviate the need to use genetic information in genetic association studies.
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Cultural transmission and evolution: a quantitative approach
TL;DR: A mathematical theory of the non-genetic transmission of cultural traits is developed that provides a framework for future investigations in quantitative social and anthropological science and concludes that cultural transmission is an essential factor in the study of cultural change.
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Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution
TL;DR: This book extends evolutionary theory by formally including niche construction and ecological inheritance as additional evolutionary processes, and demonstrates how the theory can resolve long-standing problems in ecology, particularly by advancing the sorely needed synthesis of ecology and evolution.
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Worldwide human relationships inferred from genome-wide patterns of variation.
Jun Li,Devin Absher,Hua Tang,Audrey Southwick,Amanda M. Casto,Sohini Ramachandran,Howard M. Cann,Gregory S. Barsh,Marcus W. Feldman,Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza,Richard M. Myers +10 more
TL;DR: A pattern of ancestral allele frequency distributions that reflects variation in population dynamics among geographic regions is observed and is consistent with the hypothesis of a serial founder effect with a single origin in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors
TL;DR: It is found that diversity is rapidly lost in the experimental community when dispersal and interaction occur over relatively large spatial scales, whereas all populations coexist when ecological processes are localized.