Table of Contents

List of contributors; 1. The framework of migration studies G. W. Lasker and C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor; 2. Peopling of the continents: Australia and America W. S. Laughlin and A. B. Harper; 3. Migration in the recent past: societies with records D. F. Roberts; 4. Models of human migration: an inter-island example P. D. Raspe; 5. Rural-to-urban migration Barry Bogin; 6. In search of times past: gene flow and invasion in the generation of human diversity K. M. Weiss; 7. Migration and adaptation Michael A. Little and Paul T. Baker; 8. Migration and disease Bernice A. Kaplan; Glossary; Index.

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An examination of migration as an important cause of change in the genetic and demographic structure of human populations.