Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Provides descriptions of the methods and tools used in molecular population genetics, which has combined advances in molecular biology and genomics with mathematical and empirical findings to uncover the history of natural selection and demographic shifts in many organisms.

Matthew W. Hahn is a professor at the Indiana University, Bloomington, Department of Biology and Department of Computer Science, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• 1: Models of Evolution


• 2: Experimental Design


• 3: Describing Variation


• 4: Recombination


• 5: Population Structure


• 6: The Coalescent


• 7: Direct Selection


• 8: Linked Selection


• 9: Demographic History


• 10: Population Genomics