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The question of how man has emerged must be as old as human thought itself. However, it was not until last century that, amidst a storm of opposition and highly emotional criticism, man was first conceived as a product of evolution rather than creation. Moreover, it is not yet thirty years since the chemical composition and molecular structure of the hereditary material was fully understood or the chromosome number of man became known. It should not be surprising then, to find how little, at present, we understand how our genes and chromosomes operate, and how they have evolved during phylogeny. In this work I have discussed how our own chromosomes have been transmitted and altered as far back as we may trace their phylogeny into the past. To make the work more complete, the composition and evolution of our own genome had also to be consiered in order to understand some of the recent findings at the chromosome level. These have resulted from using methods for localizing repetitive and single copy DNA sequences in chromosomes. Moreover, the development of biochemical methods of studying evolution at the macromolecular level has not only led to a more complete understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms, but has enabled us to make comparisons with evolutionary change at the chromosome level. In addition, a simple reference to the fossil record was necessary, because impressive discoveries in recent years have supplied valuable data on man's evolution.

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Author:   H.N. Seuanez
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9783540093039

ISBN 10:   3540093036
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   01 July 1979
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section I. The Origin of Man.- 1. Man, the Most Intelligent Ape.- 2. The Fossil Record and the Emergence of Modern Man.- 3. Man and His Classification.- 4. The Theory of Evolution, Genes, and Chromosomes.- Section II. Cytotaxonomy and the Evolution of Man and the Great Apes.- 5. The Chromosomes of Man and the Great Apes. The Inference of Interspecific Homology.- 6. Chromosome Heteromorphisms in Man and the Great Apes as a Source of Chromosome Variation Within Species.- 7. Chromosome Rearrangement and the Phylogeny of the Hominidae.- 8. Chromosome Variation Versus Chromosome Fixation.- Section III. Comparative Gene Mapping And Molecular Cytogenetics. A New Approach to Cytotaxonomy.- 9. Composition of the Human Genome.- 10. Evolution of Non-Repetitive DNA Sequences in Man and the Great Apes.- 11. Evolution of Structural Gene Sequences.- 12. Comparative Gene Mapping in Man and Other Primates.- 13. Evolution of Repetitive DNA Sequences in Man and Other Primates.- 14. The Chromosome Distribution of Homologous Sequences to the Four Human Satellite DNAs in the Hominidae.- 15. DNA Composition of Constitutive Heterochromatin in the Chromosome Complement of Man and the Great Apes.- 16. The Chromosomal Distribution of Ribosomal Genes in Man and the Great Apes.- 17. Late DNA Replicating Patterns in the Chromosomes of Man and the Great Apes.- 18: Evolution of Genome Size in Man and the Great Apes.

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