Book Reviews
- Ethan Bier: The Coiled Spring*
- a nice introduction to developmental biology
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza: The Great Human Diasporas*
The History of Diversity and Evolution
- R. Frankham, et al.: Introduction to Conservation Genetics
- a nicely presented undergraduate text
- L.V. Giddings, et al.: Genetics, Speciation and the Founder Principle
- essays on founder effects, genetic revolutions, karyotype evolution, ...
- John H. Gillespie: Population Genetics*
A Concise Guide
- Ramesh Hariharan: Genomic Quirks: The Search for Spelling Errors
- nine cases show how genomics is changing modern medicine
- Richard Lewontin, et al.: Not In Our Genes
Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
- Richard Lewontin: Human Diversity**
- the realities of human biological variation
- Richard Lewontin: The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change
- Roderic D. M. Page, Edward C. Holmes: Molecular Evolution*
A Phylogenetic Approach
- James A. Shapiro: Evolution: A View from the 21st Century
- natural genetic engineering and the read-write genome
- John Maynard Smith: Evolutionary Genetics*
- a readable introductory text
- James D. Watson, et al.: Molecular Biology of the Gene*
- a comprehensive overview of the entire field of molecular genetics
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biology |
developmental biology |
evolution