Darwin's Reach - Johnson, Norman A.

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Auteur(s) : Johnson, Norman A.

Editeur : Crc Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 432.0

Expédition : 776

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.8

ISBN : 9781138587427

Résumé :

Evolutionary biology is applied to a wide range of practical problems in law, medicine, agriculture, the environment, and society. Although these applications can have a dark side, rapid progress is underway or should be expected in the near future due to recent advances in DNA sequencing, new gene editing tools, and computational methods.

Biographie:

Norman Johnson is an evolutionary geneticist, who received his B. S. from William and Mary (1987) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1992). His doctoral thesis was on the genetics of hybrid sterility between different species of Drosophila. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Michael Wade on quantitative genetics of hybrid traits between species of Tribolium flour beetles at the University of Chicago. Johnson teaches classes in genetics and/or evolution. Most of his research has been on the genetics and evolution of why hybrids between species are often sterile or inviable. Other research interests include the evolution of sex chromosomes, the evolution of extremely large dietary niches in insects, and the interplay between the relaxation of selection and the loss of traits. He wrote Darwinian Detectives: Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes, published in 2007. Johnson was the lead organizer for a working group at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (in Durham, NC) on Communicating the Relevance of Human Evolution. One of the outcomes was a paper for American Biology Teacher that addresses the question, if humans evolved from chimps, why are there still chimps? Johnson was the section editor for the Applied Evolution section of the Encyclopedia of Evolution . He wrote three of the entries (overview of evolutionary medicine and cancer, pest management, and evolution and breeding) and commissioned a dozen other entries in subjects ranging from evolution and climate change response to evolutionary computation to evolution and national security.

Sommaire:

Law. The Sequence on the stand - Uses of evolutionary genetics in court proceedings. Kings of the Lab: Evolution and forensic entomology. Health. Paging Doctor Darwin: An introduction to evolutionary medicine. The past isn't through with us: evolutionary mismatch. Evolution and Infectious Disease. Darwin vs the Emperor of Maladies: how evolutionary medicine principles can be applied to cancer. Evolution and the stages of life. The future is personal - personalized genomics and medicine. Food. Evolution and breeding. Blessed Are The Cheesemakers. Pollination. Managing agriculture. So long, and thanks for all the fish: Evolution and fish management. Environment. Conservation Genetics. Evolutionary responses to a rapidly changing environment. Urban ecology: Cities as the new evolutionary frontier. Darwin Goes to the Dogs. Society. Darwinian security. Human diversity. Our future. Epilogue - The utter strangeness of the octopus: How evolutionary biology informs exobiology.