Human Evolution - Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies

Brings together new research demonstrating how evidence based on genetic phenomena should end any lingering controversy over human evolution.

List of contents

Preface; Prologue; 1. Retroviral genealogy; 2. Jumping genealogy; 3. Pseudogenealogy; 4. The origins of new genes; Epilogue: what really makes us human; References; Index.

About the author

Graeme Finlay is Senior Lecturer in Scientific Pathology at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Summary

In the past decade the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species have provided unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationships with other mammals. Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies recognises and explains these identifiable, rare and complex markers.

Product details

• Authors: Graeme Finlay, Graeme (University of Auckland) Finlay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781107040120
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04012-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Medicine, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Biology, life sciences, Medical Genetics, Human biology