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Evolution medicine's missing basic science /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: How evolution is useful to medicine -- Why doctors don't know evolution -- The body: perfect and pathetically flawed -- Proximate and evolutionary explanations -- Explain vulnerability, not diseases -- Six reasons for vulnerability -- Darwinian medicine growing fast.…”
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Evolution how genes and their variation got here /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Evolution by phenotype -- Basic factors of evolutionary change -- Mutation -- Genetic drift -- Natural selection -- Gene flow -- Current human variation -- Human global Y chromosome haplotype distribution -- Human global mtDNA haplotype distribution -- Selection for skin pigmentation and human evolution -- Genetic variation and selection for resistance to various forms of malaria -- Phenylketonuria (PKU) -- Deafness -- Breast cancer.…”
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Evolution and medicine from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist /

Subjects: “…Evolution. 111385…”
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Evolution of virulence malaria : a case study /

Subjects: “…Evolution. 111649…”
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Linguistic evolution

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Discovery of comparative linguistics -- The Indo-Hittite family -- Fundamentals of linguistic taxonomy -- Alfredo Trombetti -- The Eurasiatic language family -- African language families -- The Dene-Caucasian family -- The Amerind language family -- Monogenesis -- Origin and evolution of word order -- Linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence for human migrations.…”
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Cultural evolution

“…Human population genetics I : evolution and variation.…”
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Evolution of agriculture the origin of our food crops /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The evolution of agriculture -- The Neolithic transition -- The fertile crescent -- The spread of the new lifestyle -- Domestication -- The domestication and diversity of barley -- The evolution of weeds and rye as a secondary domesticate.…”
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Social evolution

Subjects: “…Animal behavior Evolution. 86734…”
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Human evolution

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Human evolution from the fossil record -- Early hominid lineages in and out of Africa -- The genomic revolution -- The advent of ancient DNA -- Archaic admixture -- Sedimentary DNA -- Paleoproteomics -- Natural selection in humans in the past and present.…”
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Bacteria and virus evolution a model for the study of natural selection /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Experimental evolution -- Classic experiments using bacteria and viruses -- Evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria -- Evolution of higher and lower virulence in pathogens -- Evolution of pathogen emergence.…”
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The evolution of morphological novelty

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Role of homeotic (Hox) genes in morphological evolution -- Arthropod evolution -- Crustacean appendages -- The role of gene regulation in evolution.…”
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Evolution of innate immunity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Evolutionary arms race between hosts and pathogens -- Evidence and models of adaptive and innate immunity -- Methods and data for inferring the evolution of immunity -- Toll-like receptors (TLRs) -- The complement system (C') -- Natural killer (NK) cells -- Anti-microbial peptides (AMPs) -- Phagocytes -- Diversity in immune responses is a most important property.…”
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The evolution of resistance to pesticides

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Pleiotropy cellular-molecular evolution in action /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Pleiotropy as a Rubik's Cube ("Repurposing" of genes in response to evolution) -- Complex physiologic phenotypes as homologs of the unicellular cell membrane -- Driving factors for "repurposing" of genes -- Examples of pleiotropic "repurposing" of genes -- Aging vs. …”
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Evolutionary case study the genomics of speciation in Heliconius butterflies /

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Trichoplax and the origin of animal complexity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Trichoplax and the origin of animal complexity -- Complex patterns usually evolve from more basic patterns -- Introducing the placozoan Trichoplax -- Metazoan -- Definition -- The Biology of Placozoa -- Trichoplax adhaerens: Grell clone -- Comparing Placozoa with other Metazoa -- Parallel evolution: diploblasts & triploblasts -- The new Placula hypothesis -- Hox-like genes.…”
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Origin and molecular evolution of the plastid

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Plastid distribution in eukaryotes -- Tree of life -- Evidence for plastid origin through endosymbiosis -- Primary, secondary and tertiary endosymbiosis -- Organelle genome evolution -- Endosymbiotic gene transfer -- Dating the origins of plastids.…”
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Evolution of NK cell receptors

Table of Contents: “…Contents: NK cells and receptors -- Different species -- Different receptors -- Variation of NK receptors -- Rapid evolution of NK receptors -- Co-evolution of NK receptors and MHC class I -- Implications.…”
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The diversity and evolution of ion channels

Subjects: “…Evolution, Molecular. 108757…”
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Evolution of the diagnostic criteria for diabetes

“…Evolution of diagnostic criteria for diabetes…”
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