Darwinian Detectives
Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 September 2007
- ISBN 9780195306750
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 168x241x18 mm
- Weight 535 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 lineart, 10 halftones 0
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Short description:
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. Molecular scientists exploring newly sequenced genomes have stumbled upon quite a few surprises, including that only one to ten percent of the genetic material of animals actually codes for genes. What does the remaining 90-99% of the genome do? Why do some organisms have a much lower genome size than their close relatives? What were the genetic changes that were associated with us becoming human? As molecular biologists uncover these and other new mysteries, evolutionary geneticists are searching for answers to such questions. Norman Johnson captures the excitement of the hunt for our own genetic history. Through lively anecdotes, he explores how researchers detect natural selection acting on genes and what this genetic information tells us about human origins.
The book will provide useful information for people who want to know what molecular evolutionists are currently doing
Table of Contents:
The Baby with the Baboon Heart: Why Evolution Still Matter
Why Intelligent Design Is Not Science
Interlude 1: Natural Selection
Negative Selection and the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
Detecting Positive Selection
Balancing Selection and Disease
Interlude 2: Human Origins and Evolution
Finding Our Roots: Did "Eve" Know "Adam"?
Who were the Neanderthals?
Are We the Third Chimpanzee?
What are the Genetic Differences that Made Us Human?
Clicks, Genes, and Languages
Who Let the Dogs in? The Domestication of Animals and Plants.
Size Matters: Toward Understanding the Natural History of Genomes
