Download or read book The Age of the Evolving Mutants written by Benjamin Katz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the designed vision/mission with both new faith and strategic steps aims at saving us from ourselves by our further evolvement beyond sapiens limitations.
Download or read book Mutation and Evolution written by Ronny C. Woodruff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although debated since the time of Darwin, the evolutionary role of mutation is still controversial. In over 40 chapters from leading authorities in mutation and evolutionary biology, this book takes a new look at both the theoretical and experimental measurement and significance of new mutation. Deleterious, nearly neutral, beneficial, and polygenic mutations are considered in their effects on fitness, life history traits, and the composition of the gene pool. Mutation is a phenomenon that draws attention from many different disciplines. Thus, the extensive reviews of the literature will be valuable both to established researchers and to those just beginning to study this field. Through up-to-date reviews, the authors provide an insightful overview of each topic and then share their newest ideas and explore controversial aspects of mutation and the evolutionary process. From topics like gonadal mosaicism and mutation clusters to adaptive mutagenesis, mutation in cell organelles, and the level and distribution of DNA molecular changes, the foundation is set for continuing the debate about the role of mutation, fitness, and adaptability. It is a debate that will have profound consequences for our understanding of evolution.
Download or read book Marvel Age X Men Evolution written by Devin Grayson and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel about the origins of the X-Men. Professor Xavier is locating young mutants and giving them a safe haven at his school, where they may develop their individual super powers while learning to get along with each other and the normal humans around them. Meanwhile, villainous Magneto is recruiting his own team of disaffected mutants who expect to be hated by humans and who return that feeling with interest.
Download or read book Evolution in Age Structured Populations written by Brian Charlesworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The populations of many species of animals and plants are age-structured, i.e. the individuals present at any one time were born over a range of different times, and their fertility and survival depend on age. The properties of such populations are important for interpreting experiments and observations on the genetics of populations for animal and plant breeding, and for understanding the evolution of features of life-histories such as senescence and time of reproduction. In this new edition Brian Charlesworth provides a comprehensive review of the basic mathematical theory of the demography and genetics of age-structured populations. The mathematical level of the book is such that it will be accessible to anyone with a knowledge of basic calculus and linear algebra.
Download or read book The Ages of the X Men written by Joseph J. Darowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The X-Men comic book franchise is one of the most popular of all time and one of the most intriguing for critical analysis. With storylines that often contain overt social messages within its "mutant metaphor," X-Men is often credited with having more depth than the average superhero property. In this collection, each essay examines a specific era of the X-Men franchise in relationship to contemporary social concerns. The essays are arranged chronologically, from an analysis of popular science at the time of the first X-Men comic book in 1963 to an interpretation of a storyline in light of rhetoric of President Obama's first presidential campaign. Topics ranging from Communism to celebrity culture to school violence are addressed by scholars who provide new insights into one of America's most significant popular culture products.
Download or read book Mutation and the Evolution of Age specific Mortality Rates written by Scott D. Pletcher and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mutation Factor in Evolution written by Reginald Ruggles Gates and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetik und Evolutionsforschung, Genetik
Download or read book How Evolution Shapes Our Lives written by Jonathan B. Losos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life today It is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime. But we now know that when natural selection is strong, evolutionary change can be very rapid. In this book, some of the world's leading scientists explore the implications of this reality for human life and society. With some twenty-three essays, this volume provides authoritative yet accessible explorations of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life—from dealing with climate change and ensuring our food supply, health, and economic survival to developing a richer and more accurate comprehension of society, culture, and even what it means to be human itself. Combining new essays with essays revised and updated from the acclaimed Princeton Guide to Evolution, this collection addresses the role of evolution in aging, cognition, cooperation, religion, the media, engineering, computer science, and many other areas. The result is a compelling and important book about how evolution matters to humans today. The contributors are Dan I. Andersson, Francisco J. Ayala, Amy Cavanaugh, Cameron R. Currie, Dieter Ebert, Andrew D. Ellington, Elizabeth Hannon, John Hawks, Paul Keim, Richard E. Lenski, Tim Lewens, Jonathan B. Losos, Virpi Lummaa, Jacob A. Moorad, Craig Moritz, Martha M. Muñoz, Mark Pagel, Talima Pearson, Robert T. Pennock, Daniel E. L. Promislow, Erik M. Quandt, David C. Queller, Robert C. Richardson, Eugenie C. Scott, H. Bradley Shaffer, Joan E. Strassmann, Alan R. Templeton, Paul E. Turner, and Carl Zimmer.
Download or read book Mutation Randomness and Evolution written by Arlin Stoltzfus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to shape adaptations? The author draws on a detailed knowledge of mutational mechanisms to argue that the randomness doctrine is best understood, not as a fact-based conclusion, but as the premise of a neo-Darwinian research program focused on selection. The successes of this research program created a blind spot - in mathematical models and verbal theories of causation - that has stymied efforts to re-think the role of variation. However, recent theoretical and empirical work shows that mutational biases can and do influence the course of evolution, including adaptive evolution, through a first come, first served mechanism. This thought-provoking book cuts through the conceptual tangle at the intersection of mutation, randomness, and evolution, offering a fresh, far-reaching, and testable view of the role of variation as a dispositional evolutionary factor. The arguments will be accessible to philosophers and historians with a serious interest in evolution, as well as to researchers and advanced students of evolution focused on molecules, microbes, evo-devo, and population genetics.
Download or read book Evolution in Health and Disease written by Stephen C. Stearns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores and analyses the ways in which our ancient genes contend with, and influence, modern human life. It offers coverage of the points of contact between evolutionary biology and medical science.
Download or read book Mutation Driven Evolution written by Masatoshi Nei and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 2138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Four Volume Set is the definitive go-to reference in the field of evolutionary biology. It provides a fully comprehensive review of the field in an easy to search structure. Under the collective leadership of fifteen distinguished section editors, it is comprised of articles written by leading experts in the field, providing a full review of the current status of each topic. The articles are up-to-date and fully illustrated with in-text references that allow readers to easily access primary literature. While all entries are authoritative and valuable to those with advanced understanding of evolutionary biology, they are also intended to be accessible to both advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Broad topics include the history of evolutionary biology, population genetics, quantitative genetics; speciation, life history evolution, evolution of sex and mating systems, evolutionary biogeography, evolutionary developmental biology, molecular and genome evolution, coevolution, phylogenetic methods, microbial evolution, diversification of plants and fungi, diversification of animals, and applied evolution. Presents fully comprehensive content, allowing easy access to fundamental information and links to primary research Contains concise articles by leading experts in the field that ensures current coverage of each topic Provides ancillary learning tools like tables, illustrations, and multimedia features to assist with the comprehension process
Download or read book How Science Works Evolution written by John Ellis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science and religion compatible? Why are there so many different religious beliefs but only one science? What is the evidence for evolution? Why does evolution occur? If you are interested in any of these questions and have some knowledge of biology, this book is for you.
Download or read book The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution written by Motoo Kimura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motoo Kimura, as founder of the neutral theory, is uniquely placed to write this book. He first proposed the theory in 1968 to explain the unexpectedly high rate of evolutionary change and very large amount of intraspecific variability at the molecular level that had been uncovered by new techniques in molecular biology. The theory - which asserts that the great majority of evolutionary changes at the molecular level are caused not by Darwinian selection but by random drift of selectively neutral mutants - has caused controversy ever since. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of this subject and the author synthesises a wealth of material - ranging from a historical perspective, through recent molecular discoveries, to sophisticated mathematical arguments - all presented in a most lucid manner.
Download or read book Evolutionary Genetics written by R. S. Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-28 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings out the central role of evolutionary genetics in all aspects of its connection to evolutionary biology.
Download or read book Stochastic Processes in Genetics and Evolution written by Charles J Mode and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of this book is the field of evolutionary genetics. The book contains new methods for simulating evolution at the genomic level. It sets out applications using up to date Monte Carlo simulation methods applied in classical population genetics, and sets out new fields of quantifying mutation and selection at the Mendelian level. A serious limitation of Wright-Fisher process, the assumption that population size is constant, motivated the introduction of self regulating branching processes in this book. While providing a short review of the principles of probability and its application and using computer intensive methods whilst applying these principles, this book explains how it is possible to derive new formulas expressed in terms of matrix algebra providing new insights into the classical Wright-Fisher processes of evolutionary genetics. Also covered are the development of new methods for studying genetics and evolution, simulating nucleotide substitutions of a DNA molecule and on self regulating branching processes. Components of natural selection are studied in terms of reproductive success of each genotype whilst also studying the differential ability of genotypes to compete for resources and sexual selection. The concept of the gene is also reviewed in this book, and it provides a current definition of a gene based on very recent experiments with micro-array technologies. A development of stochastic models for simulating the evolution of model genomes concludes the studies in this book. Deserving of a place on the book shelves of workers in biomathematics, applied probability, stochastic processes and statistics, as well as in bioinformatics and phylogenetics, it will also be relevant to those interested in computer simulation, and evolutionary biologists interested in quantitative methods. Contents:An Introduction to Mathematical Probability with Applications in Mendelian GeneticsLinkage and Recombination at Multiple LociLinkage and Recombination in Large Random Mating Diploid Populations Random Mating Diploid PopulationsTwo Allele Wright-Fisher Process with Mutation and SelectionMultitype Gamete Sampling Processes, Generation of Random Numbers and Monte Carlo Simulation MethodsNucleotide Substitution Models Formulated as Markov Processes in Continuous TimeMixtures of Markov Processes as Models of Nucleotide Substitutions at Many SitesComputer Implementations and Applications of Nucleotide Substitution Models at Many Sites — Other Non-SNP Types of MutationGenealogies, Coalescence and Self-Regulating Branching ProcessesEmergence, Survival and Extinction of Mutant Types in Populations of Self Replicating Individuals Evolving From Small Founder PopulationsTwo Sex Multitype Self Regulating Branching Processes in Evolutionary GeneticsMultitype Self-Regulatory Branching Process and the Evolutionary Genetics of Age Structured Two Sex PopulationsAn Overview of the History of the Concept of a Gene and Selected Topics in Molecular GeneticsDetecting Genomic Signals of Selection and the Development of Models for Simulating the Evolution of GenomesSuggestions for Further Research, Reading and Viewing Readership: Professionals, researchers in mathematical and theoretical genetics and biology, graduate students in applied stochastic processes. Keywords:Mutation;Selection;Genes;Genomes;Stochastic Processes;Self Regulating Branching Processes;Models of GenomesKey Features:Provides many examples of applying Monte Carlo simulation methods to models that are not tractable mathematicallyRaises the study of evolution to new levels by using computer intensive methods when compared to classical and widely read population genetics books such as those by Ewens and Hartl and ClarkAll models, rooted within a formal framework of stochastic processes, enable any reader to write code in a programming language of his choice, to duplicate any of the experiments reported in the bookReviews: "Evolutionary biologists today need enough mathematical training to be able to assess the power and limits of evolutionary genetic models and to develop theories and models themselves. This book, based on very extensive—and impressive—research work, serves that purpose." Mathematical Reviews
Download or read book Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution written by Ary A. Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most natural populations intermittently experience extremely stressful conditions. This book discusses how such conditions can cause periods of intense selection, increasing both phenotypic and genetic variation, and allowing organisms with novel characteristics to be first generated and then established in the population. The authors argue that stressful conditions can have a major impact on the environment, backing up their arguments with evidence from the fossil record. They suggest further that, as a consequence, periods of stress must be taken into consideration when long term conservation strategies are planned, particularly as stressful conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent as a result of human activities. This broad overview will be of great interest to students and researchers in the field of evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, palaeontology and conservation biology.
