New Horizons in Evolution

Herausgegeben:Wasser, Solomon P.; Frenkel-Morgenstern, Milana

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Produktbeschreibung

New Horizons in Evolution is a compendium of the latest research, analyses, and theories of evolutionary biology. Chapters are collected from the international symposium held by the Board of Governors of the University of Haifa to honor Dr. Eviatar Nevo, founder and director of the Institute of Evolution.

This book includes material written by top global scientists. Such detailed summaries and recent advances include topics like genomics, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, and the evolution of cancer. This book analyzes evolutionary biology of animals, such as lizards and subterranean mammals. It also discusses agricultural evolution, specifically the vital wheat crop in various climates and locations. Each chapter contributes the most up-to-date knowledge of evolution's role in speciation, adaptation, and regulation.

New Horizons in Evolution is a valuable resource for researchers involved in evolution, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary theory. Advancedundergraduate and graduate students in evolutionary biology courses will also find this useful due to the high expertise level and latest knowledge available through this resource.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2020-0-03065-3
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780323907521
• ISBN-10: 0323907520
• Artikelnr.: 60982859

Autorenporträt

Solomon P. Wasser is a world leader in medicinal mushrooms study and fungal evolution, taxonomy, and biodiversity, especially in higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms. He has introduced 226 new scientific names for fungi, including 42 species of higher Basidiomycetes species. He has also developed and patented new dietary supplements with immunomodulating, cholesterol lowering, antidiabetic, antioxidant, and radical scavenging activities. He is founder and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Algologia, and International Journal on Algae and is an author and coauthor of 600 scientific publications, including 57 books and 15 patents.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Solomon P. wasser and Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern 1. Genomics and Evolution James A. Shapiro 2. Epigenetics Moshe Szyf 3. The Theory of Evolution Eugene Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf and Mikhail I. Katsnelson 4. Evolutionary Perspectives on Cancer and Ageing Walter Bodmer and Daniel Crouch 5. Evolutionary Medicine Karl Skorecki and Etty Kruzel-Davila 6. Evolutionary Biology networking of Lizards Amy Kathleen Conley, Jennifer L. Neuwald and Alan R. Templeton 7. Evolution sensory biology of subterranean mammals Hynek Burda 8. Evolutionary agriculture domestication of wheat Junhua Peng, Zhiyong Liu, Xionglun Liu, Jun Yan, Dongfa Sun and Eviatar Nevo 9. EvoProDom: Evolutionary Modeling of Protein Families by Assessing Translocations of Protein Domains Gon Carmi, Alessandro Gorohovski and Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern 10. The Evolution Canyon model Eviatar Nevo

Rezensionen

"This collection of 10 essays might be the most remarkable Festschrift any biologist is likely to encounter. The reason is that the collection honors Eviatar Nevo, an evolutionary biologist whose breadth and depth of superb empirical work is without equal. The volume does justice to Nevo's long, remarkable career by including contributions that span the gamut from the sensory systems of subterranean mammals to evolutionary medicine.

This is a magnificent volume honoring a unique career. Evolutionary biologists should not pass it up." --The Quarterly Review of Biology