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Genetics and the Logic of Evolution
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Genetics and the Logic of Evolution Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Weiss, K. M. and Buchanan, A. V

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Wiley-Liss, 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1250grams, ISBN:9780471238058
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  • Title Genetics and the Logic of Evolution
  • Author Weiss, K. M. and Buchanan, A. V
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Liss
  • Date 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8966248
  • ISBN 9780471238058 / 0471238058
  • Weight 2.53 lbs (1.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.32 x 7.08 x 1.19 in (26.21 x 17.98 x 3.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Evolutionary genetics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003014905
  • Dewey Decimal Code 572.838

First line

Natural history is the descriptive study of the natural world.

From the rear cover

Darwinian theory, with genes at its center, still frames our discussion of evolution. Yet now the picture within the frame-a portrait rendered in detail at the cellular and molecular level-contains the real stuff of today's big questions about living organisms. Genetics and molecular biology have revealed a new realm of complexity in life, with major implications for how we understand evolution.

Genetics and the Logic of Evolution provides a much-needed overview and analysis of general principles and patterns of evolution in light of contemporary biology. Taking a functional approach to explain how genes are used across the diverse range of species, the authors consider:

  • Basic concepts and principles of biological complexity
  • Alternative and supplemental principles to Darwinian theory
  • Building blocks of life: how DNA, RNA, and genes work in single-cell and multi-cellular organisms
  • Communication within an organism
  • Detection and perception of the environment
  • Evolutionary order and disorder and the sometimes fluid relationships between phenotypes and genotypes

Working outwards from the molecular level, Genetics and the Logic of Evolution moves its discourse towards a broader sense of life and how organisms live it. Written to be both scientifically rigorous and accessible to the layman, this treatment offers students and practitioners a refreshingly grand tour of the most important generalizations to emerge from recent biological research.

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  • Choice, 06/01/2004, Page 1907

About the author

Kenneth M Weiss is Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Genetics at Penn State University. After majoring in mathematics at Oberlin College, he received graduate training in Biological Anthropology and genetics at the University of Michigan, where he received his PhD in 1972. He has written widely on evolutionary principlesand biology, human genetics and the complexities of therelationships between genes and traits like human disease or developmental patterns. He writes a regular column onproblems and issues in evolution and genetics for the journal Evolutionary Anthropology, and is the author of Genetic Variation and Human Disease: Principles and Evolutionary Approaches. He has also been a professional meteorologist.

Anne Buchanan is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University. She has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and a DrPH in Population Studies from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She has worked on population-scale problems in relation to health and genetics, and on molecular and developmental genetics, and has published in a diversity of areas, including anthropology, demography, epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and developmental genetics.

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