1: Selectionism and Mutationism
2: Neo-Darwinism and Pan-Selectionism
3: Evolutionary Theories in the Neo-Darwinian Era
4: Molecular Evolution
5: Gene Duplication, Multigene Families, and Repetitive DNA
Sequences
6: Evolution of Phenotypic Characters
7: Mutation and Selection in Speciation
8: Adaptation and Evolution
9: Mutation and Selection in Evolution
10: Summary and Conclusion
Masatoshi Nei is a molecular evolutionary geneticist and has
developed many statistical methods that are widely used for
evolutionary studies at present. He has also studied human
evolution and evolution of multigene families, immune systems
genes, sensory receptor genes, etc. Masatoshi Nei is currently Evan
Pugh Professor of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University and
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received
numerous Awards including the
International Prize for Biology from Japan and the Thomas Morgan
Medal from the Genetics Society of America. Nei is a co-founder of
the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution and served as President
of
the Society for the Study of Molecular Biology and Evolution and
American Genetic Association.
[T]hose of us involved in evolution education and interested in
conceptual issues relevant to evolution have a lot to learn from
this book.
*Kostas Kampourakis, Science & Education*
Overall, this is a fascinating piece of science and an impressive
amount of work, thematically broad but still remarkably synthetic
and focused in each of its sections. As a masters student I learned
molecular evolution largely thanks to Nei's (1987) Molecular
Evolutionary Genetics. I would warmly recommend this update to 21st
century students, if only for its clarity and originality.
*Nicolas Galtier, Systematic Biology*
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