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Jennifer Raff

Biology

#3381

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#5180

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#1376

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Genetics

#436

World Rank

#503

Historical Rank

#185

USA Rank

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Bachelors Biology University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Jennifer Anne Raff is an American geneticist and an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. She specializes in anthropological genetics relating to the initial peopling of the Americas and subsequent prehistory of Indigenous populations throughout North America. She is the President of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics. Alongside her research, Raff is a science communicator who writes and gives public talks about topics in science literacy.

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Jennifer Raff's Published Works

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The Human Genetic History of the Americas: The Final Frontier (2010) (171)
Comparative analysis of the human saliva microbiome from different climate zones: Alaska, Germany, and Africa (2014) (119)
Ancient DNA perspectives on American colonization and population history. (2011) (82)
Advancing the ethics of paleogenomics (2018) (71)
Paleo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America (2019) (63)
Two contemporaneous mitogenomes from terminal Pleistocene burials in eastern Beringia (2015) (53)
Fladmark + 40: What Have We Learned about a Potential Pacific Coast Peopling of the Americas? (2020) (45)
Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America (2019) (40)
Native American Genomics and Population Histories (2016) (39)
Comparing signals of natural selection between three Indigenous North American populations (2019) (38)
Does Mitochondrial Haplogroup X Indicate Ancient Trans-Atlantic Migration to the Americas? A Critical Re-Evaluation (2015) (29)
Palaeogenomics: Genetic roots of the first Americans (2014) (29)
South from Alaska: A Pilot aDNA Study of Genetic History on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutians (2010) (25)
Tuberculosis in the New World: a study of ribs from the Schild Mississippian population, West-Central Illinois. (2006) (24)
Mitochondrial diversity of Iñupiat people from the Alaskan North Slope provides evidence for the origins of the Paleo- and Neo-Eskimo peoples. (2015) (23)
The language of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in human genetic research (2021) (15)
Nicholas Wade and Race: Building a Scientific Façade (2014) (12)
Paleo-Eskimo genetic legacy across North America (2017) (12)
Ancient DNA from the Schild site in Illinois: Implications for the Mississippian transition in the Lower Illinois River Valley. (2015) (8)
An ancient DNA perspective on the prehistory of the Lower Illinois Valley (2008) (7)
Peopling the Americas: Not “Out of Japan” (2021) (5)
How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists (2016) (4)
Anthropological Genetics: Anthropological Genetics (2015) (4)
Ancient DNA and Bioarcheology (2019) (4)
Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 2021. (2021) (4)
Genome of the Ancient One (a.k.a. Kennewick Man) (2015) (2)
A framework for enhancing ethical genomic research with Indigenous communities (2018) (2)
Comparative analysis of the human saliva microbiome from different climate zones: Alaska, Germany, and Africa (2014) (1)
Ancient DNA and Stable Isotopes (2016) (1)
Testing the Effect of the Toba Volcanic Eruption on Population Sizes in Worldwide Mammal Species (2020) (1)
Anthropological Genetics and Social Media (2015) (1)
Human Evolutionary Biology: Genetics in Human Biology (2010) (1)
Reconstructing the Effects of European Contact on North Slope Iñupiat Populations Through Genetic, Archaeological, and Ethnohistoric Research (2015) (0)
The "African Queen" a Portuguese mystery (2012) (0)
Estimation of archaic hominin haplotype frequencies in contemporary Aleuts (2019) (0)
Nicholas Wade and Race : Building a Scientific (2015) (0)
Wright, Sewall (2018) (0)
Ancient DNA Analysis of the Prehistoric Inhabitants of the Lower Pecos Region of Texas and Northern Mexico (2016) (0)
DNA: Mitochondrial (2018) (0)
and Race : Building a Scientific Fac ̧ ade (2016) (0)
VITAL TOPICS FORUM Anthropological Genetics (2015) (0)
Current developments in anthropological genetics of the North American Arctic (2015) (0)
Genetics: Ancient DNA Clarifies Population Histories of the Northeastern Margin of North America (2017) (0)
Ancient mtDNA: both Amazonian and Andean migrants in western Puerto Rico by late Saladoid times (2016) (0)
Insights into Native North American Admixture Patterns from Whole Genome Sequencing (2015) (0)
Communicating early career research: The importance of outreach (2017) (0)
Investigating region-specific natural selection and admixture-associated selection in the Indigenous peoples of the Americas (2018) (0)
Cloning (2018) (0)

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