Keith Hunley
Assistant Professor

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM
Evolution and Human Emergence (150)
Human Genetics 455/555
Population Genetics 450/550
Computer Aided Inferences in Natural Science 450/550

Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Dissertation: The Anthropological Utility of Genetic Data in Small-Scale Populations: Migration Rates and Patterns among the Yanomamo

Selected Publications
Hunley KL, Cabana GS, Merriwether DA, Long JC. (2007). A formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in Native Central and South America. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 132 (4): 622-631.

Hunley K, Dunn M, Lindström E, Reesink G, Terrill A, Norton H, Scheinfeldt L, Friedlaender F, Merriwether DA, Koki G, and Friedlaender J (2007). Inferring prehistory from genetic, linguistic, and geographic variation. In Genetics, Linguistics, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific. J Friedlaender (ed). Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Cabana GS, Merriwether DA, Hunley KL, Demarchi DA. (2006) Unique patterns of regional mitochondrial DNA variation among the Gran Chaco peoples of Argentina. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131(1): 108-119.

Hunley, K., and J. C. Long. 2005. Gene flow across linguistic boundaries in Native North American populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:1312-1317.

Mulligan CJ, Hunley KL, Cole SM, Long JC (2004). Population genetics, history, and health patterns in Native Americans. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 5:295- 315.

Wolpoff M, J Hawks, D Frayer, K Hunley 2001. Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A test of the Replacement Theory. Science. 291:293-297.

Hawks J, K Hunley, S Lee, M Wolpoff. 2000. Population Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Human Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17(1):2-22

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