Genetics and the Logic of Evolution

Weiss (Autor)

Online Resource

2005
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-0-471-53265-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book the authors draw on what is known, largely from recent research, about the nature of genes and cells, the genetics of development and animal and plant body plans, intra- and interorganismal communication, sensation and perception, to propose that a few basic generalizations, along with the modified application of the classical evolutionary theory, can provide a broader theoretical understanding of genes, evolution, and the diverse and complex nature of living organisms.

Autor

Kenneth M Weiss is Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Geneticsat Penn State University. After majoring in mathematics at OberlinCollege, he received graduate training in Biological Anthropologyand genetics at the University of Michigan, where he received hisPhD in 1972. He has written widely on evolutionary principlesand biology, human genetics and the complexities of therelationships between genes and traits like human disease ordevelopmental patterns. He writes a regular column onproblems and issues in evolution and genetics for the journalEvolutionary Anthropology, and is the author of GeneticVariation and Human Disease: Principles and EvolutionaryApproaches. He has also been a professionalmeteorologist. Anne Buchanan is Senior Research Scientist in the Department ofAnthropology at Penn State University. She has a BA inAnthropology from the University of Massachusetts and a DrPH inPopulation Studies from the University of Texas School of PublicHealth. She has worked on population-scale problems inrelation to health and genetics, and on molecular and developmentalgenetics, and has published in a diversity of areas, includinganthropology, demography, epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, anddevelopmental genetics.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• ISBN-10: 0-471-53265-7 / 0471532657
• ISBN-13: 978-0-471-53265-1 / 9780471532651
• Zustand: Neuware