Human Evolutionary Biology.
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| Author / Creator: | Muehlenbein, Michael P. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (636 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831367 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I Theory and Methods; 1Evolutionary Theory; THE ORIGIN OF VARIATION; VARIATION WITHIN POPULATIONS; GENETIC DRIFT; THE NEUTRAL THEORY OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; MODES OF SELECTION; COMPONENTS OF FITNESS; MODELING ADAPTATION; LEVELS OF SELECTION; SPECIATION; FROM MICROEVOLUTION TO MACROEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY TODAY; DISCUSSION POINTS; REFERENCES; 2The Study of Human Adaptation; INTRODUCTION; HOMEOSTASIS AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ADAPTIVE PROCESSES; ACCLIMATION; HABITUATION.
- ACCLIMATIZATIONDEVELOPMENTAL ACCLIMATIZATION; ACCOMMODATION AND ADAPTATION; INDIVIDUALS VERSUS POPULATIONS; CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; GENETIC ADAPTATION AND ADAPTABILITY; MULTILEVEL SELECTION AND EVOLUTION OF CO-OPERATION; CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN ADAPTATION RESEARCH; DEVELOPMENTAL ADAPTATION AND THE THRIFTY GENOTYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL ADAPTATION AND THE THRIFTY PHENOTYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL ADAPTATION AND EPIGENETICS; Methylation; Transgenerational epigenetic effects; OVERVIEW; DISCUSSION POINTS; REFERENCES; 3History of the Study of Human Biology; INTRODUCTION; RACE AND TYPOLOGY.
- FRANZ BOAS AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONSPRE-WORLD WAR II AND HUMAN POPULATION BIOLOGY; THE WORLD WAR II YEARS; POST-WAR UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM; AFTER THE MIDDLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; HUMAN ADAPTABILITY, ECOLOGY, AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS; DNA ANALYSIS AND MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCTION AND CHILD GROWTH; BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, HEALTH, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND JOURNALS IN HUMAN BIOLOGY; WHAT IS HUMAN BIOLOGY?; DISCUSSION POINTS; REFERENCES; 4Genetics in Human Biology; PARTICULATE THEORY OF INHERITANCE; MENDELIAN GENETICS; HUMAN GENETICS AND MODES OF INHERITANCE.
- MOLECULAR GENETICSGenes; DNA and RNA; Chromosome architecture; Replication; The somatic cell cycle and mitosis; Meiosis; From DNA to phenotype; Transcription; Regulation of gene expression; Mechanisms of transcription; Post-transcriptional processing in eukaryotes; Translation; Proteins; SOME TOOLS OF MOLECULAR GENETICS; DNA isolation; Polymerase chain reaction; Sequencing: Sanger method; Sequencing: shotgun; POLYGENIC INHERITANCE AND ADAPTATION STUDIES; HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT, AND HERITABILITY; Gene by environment interaction; NON-MENDELIAN INHERITANCE AND EPIGENETICS.
- A MODERN SYNTHESIS AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICSHUMAN POPULATION GENETICS AND THE HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS AND THE HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM; Effective population size; Random mating; Departures from random mating of individuals; MICROEVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES OF ALLELE FREQUENCY CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY SOURCES OF GENETIC VARIATION; Mutation; Gene flow; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES ACTING UPON VARIATION; Random genetic drift; Selection; Directional selection; Balancing selection; The Hardy-Weinberg test; INTERACTION OF MICROEVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES; Selection and mutation.