The Structure of Human Genetic Diversity: More Evolution and Less Race

The goals of Prof. Hunley's research program in genetic anthropology are to improve our understanding of the evolutionary processes that have molded human biological and cultural diversity at different times and places in the past, and to explore the larger social and scientific meaning of these evolutionary processes. His specific interests include human origins and prehistory, genetic and linguistic co-evolution in Native America and Island Melanesia, and ethnicity and health in New Mexico. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation and has been published in Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, the Journal of Human Evolution, the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics.