Human Migration Biocultural Perspectives

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 María de Lourdes Muñoz-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.

Mar?a de Lourdes Mu?oz was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She is a Research Professor in the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Centro de Investigaci?n y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV-IPN). Mu?oz was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Pathology and Visiting Fellow for
"Advanced Research Experience" at the National Institute of Health in Maryland. Later, she was Visiting Professor in the Department of Genetics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Mu?oz did a sabbatical year at the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology at the University of Kansas
from 2015 to 2016 to start a collaborative research project with Dr. Michael H. Crawford. The main focus of this research was on the population genetics of pre-Hispanic and contemporary Mexicans.

Michael H. Crawford was born in Shanghai, China, but he lived in displaced persons camps in the Philippine Islands (Tubabao) and Australia (Urunquinty). He earned his PhD in anthropology and genetics in 1967 from the University of Washington, Seattle. Crawford was Professor of Anthropology and
Genetics at the University of Kansas for 50 years prior to retirement in 2020. In 1976, he established the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology. Over the years, he has mentored 41 PhDs and 20 post-doctoral fellows. Crawford has conducted field investigations in Mexico, the Caribbean, Siberia, the
Aleutian Islands, Italy, and India. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles in national and international journals.

Chapter 1: Introduction, Maria de Lourdes Mu?oz 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. V?ctor 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 Mu?oz, Mirna Isabel Ochoa-Lugo, Gerardo P?rez-Ram?rez, Kristine G. Beaty, Adri?n Mart?nez 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, Mar?a Teresa Navarro-Romero, Mar?a de Lourdes Mu?oz, and Enrique Alcal?-Casta?eda

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. G?mez, T.G. Schurr, and M.A. Meraz-R?os
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: Xibablb? in the Puyil Cave, Puxcat?n, Tabasco, Enrique Alcal?-Casta?eda
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 Mar?a de Lourdes Mu?oz
Chapter 20: Major Impact of Massive Migration on Spread of Epidemic Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strains, Igor Mokrousov

Conclusion, Michael H. Crawford and Maria de Lourdes Mu?oz

Index