Search Results - "Evolution"

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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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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The Taming of Evolution : The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans / by Greenwood, Davydd J.

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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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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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Human pathogen-driven evolution

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Natural selection at the immune system -- Signals of pathogen-driven selection in the human genome -- Human evolution and susceptibility to infectious diseases -- Autoimmune conditions and the hygiene hypothesis.…”
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Genetic and linguistic evolution and coevolution

Table of Contents: “…-- Regional studies of language and population genetic evolution.…”
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Genetic drift in human evolution part 1 of 2 /

Subjects: “…Human evolution. 102205…”
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Genetic drift in human evolution part 2 of 2 /

Subjects: “…Human evolution. 102267…”
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How to "deconvolute" lung evolution part 1 [of 3]. Vertebrate ontogeny : the "short history" of evolution /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Ontogeny, the "short history" of the organism -- Embryogenesis, blastula to gastrula -- Molecular signaling and morphogenesis -- Alternating extrinsic/intrinsic selection pressure -- Swim Bladder-Lung homology -- Continuum from ontogeny to phylogeny, homeostasis, repair -- PTHrP necessary for alveolarization -- PTHrP, Glucocorticoid and ßAdrenergic Receptor gene duplications -- Evolution of Endothermy.…”
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How to "deconvolute" lung evolution part 3, Evolutionary lessons from cell culture /

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Evolution, the microbiome, and human health

Subjects: “…Evolution (Biology) 92970…”
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The evolution of complement and the alternative pathway

Table of Contents: “…Contents: History of discovery of The complement system -- Evolution of complement -- The alternative complement pathway -- Defects and diseases associated with complement -- Complement and inflammation.…”
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The origin of eukaryotes

Subjects: “…Eukaryotic cells Evolution. 99125…”
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Audience questions about evolution and medicine

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Certain questions always come up -- They reveal deep interest in the evolutionary medicine and substantial ignorance about evolution -- Answering them fills some gaps in the rest of the lecture series -- The future of Darwinian Medicine.…”
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Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy

Subjects: “…Human evolution. 111951…”
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