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Hartl, D. L. & A. G. Clark, 2007. Principles of Population Genetics. 4th Edition. Sinauer Associates, xv + 628 p., 18.5 × 24 cm, hardcover, US$93.95, ISBN 978-0-878-93308-2.
Major developments, such as genome sequencing of many organisms, have somewhat restructured the field of population genetics since the last edition of this classical textbook 10 years ago. It was thus necessary to update the content of this new version to reflect these recent progresses. As a result, the book now contains two completely new chapters that deal with population genomics (Chapter 9) and human population genetics (Chapter 10). Topics such as genome-wide patterns of polymorphism, comparison of patterns of divergence among species, sexual selection and the sex chromosomes, and the population genetics of transposable elements are included in the population genomics part. The interesting section on human population genetics deals, for instance, with human polymorphism and how it could be assessed using Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and information obtained from the HapMap project (the international initiative aiming to identify and record genetic variability in humans) and how such data are integrated in research on human diseases and into our evolutionary history.
The books still covers the basic theoretical principles of population genetics and the genetics of quantitative traits, since all other chapters contain mainly restructured information that was part of the previous version. Chapter 1 includes basic notions...