Norman A Johnson

Darwinian Detectives

Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes

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Produktbeschreibung

Biology is viewed as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history chaining us to a scientific past. This work bridges this divide, revealing how natural history make sense of fresh genomic discoveries. It also gives anecdotes to explore how researchers detect natural selection acting on genes.

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Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology, ) chaining us to a descriptive scientific past. In Darwinian Detectives, Norman Johnson bridges this divide, revealing how the tried and true tools of natural history make sense of the newest genomic discoveries

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780195306750
• ISBN-10: 0195306759
• Artikelnr.: 22559204

Autorenporträt

Norman A. Johnson, an evolutionary geneticist, is the author of numerous research publications, mainly in the genetics and evolution of reproductive isolation between nascent species. Johnson has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Texas at Arlington, and the University of Massachusetts, where he is currently an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Baby with the Baboon Heart: Why Evolution Still Matter
2: Why Intelligent Design Is Not Science
Interlude 1: Natural Selection
3: Negative Selection and the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
4: Detecting Positive Selection
5: Balancing Selection and Disease
Interlude 2: Human Origins and Evolution
6: Finding Our Roots: Did "Eve" Know "Adam"?
7: Who were the Neanderthals?
8: Are We the Third Chimpanzee?
9: What are the Genetic Differences that Made Us Human?
10: Clicks, Genes, and Languages
11: Who Let the Dogs in? The Domestication of Animals and Plants.
12: Size Matters: Toward Understanding the Natural History of Genomes