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The purpose of this book is to present a new theory of mutation-driven evolution, which is based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. This theory asserts that the driving force of evolution is mutation and natural selection is of secondary importance.
List of contents
1 Selectionism and Mutationism; 2 Neo-Darwinism and Pan-Selectionism; 3 Evolutionary Theories in the Neo-Darwinian Era; 4 Molecular Evolution; 5 Gene Duplication, Multigene Families, and Repetitive DNA Sequences; 6 Evolution of Phenotypic Characters; 7 Mutation and Selection in Speciation; 8 Adaptation and Evolution; 9 Mutation and Selection in Evolution; 10 Summary and Conclusion
About the author
Masatoshi Nei is a molecular evolutionary geneticist and has developed many statistical methods that are widely used for evolutionary studies at present. He has also studied human evolution and evolution of multigene families, immune systems genes, sensory receptor genes, etc. Masatoshi Nei is currently Evan Pugh Professor of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received numerous Awards including the International Prize for Biology from Japan and the Thomas Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America. Nei is a co-founder of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution and served as President of the Society for the Study of Molecular Biology and Evolution and American Genetic Association.
Summary
The purpose of this book is to present a new theory of mutation-driven evolution, which is based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. This theory asserts that the driving force of evolution is mutation and natural selection is of secondary importance.
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[T]hose of us involved in evolution education and interested in conceptual issues relevant to evolution have a lot to learn from this book.
