Molecular Approaches to Evolution

✍ Scribed by Jacques Ninio; Robert Lang

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 139
Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 762
Edition: Course Book
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Jacques Ninio addresses molecular biology from the evolutionist's viewpoint, reviewing major research areas such as acquisitive evolution; the comparison of protein structures in three dimensions; the stability of the genetic code; and prebiotic replication.

Originally published in 1983.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Clearing the ground
2. The Chemistry of life
3. The discreet charm of the sequences
4. Evolution in three dimensions
5. Can sequences be compared?
6. Replication and genetic tinkering
7. Populations
8. Prebiotic replication
9. The genetic code
10. The stereochemical hypothesis
11. The origin of the genetic code
12. Sequence space
13. Acquisitive evolution
14. Molecular defences
15. Molecular crosses
16. The great error loop
Bibliography
References

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