Research Catalog

Title

Molecular anthropology : genes and proteins in the evolutionary ascent of the primates / edited by Morris Goodman and Richard E. Tashian. ; associate editor, Jeanne H. Tashian.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goodman, Morris, 1925-
• Tashian, Richard E.

Description

xiii, 466 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

Advances in primatology

Uniform Title

Advances in primatology (Plenum Press)

Subject

• Bibel
• Primates > Evolution > Congresses
• Molecular evolution > Congresses
• Molecular Biology
• Primates > genetics
• Proteins > analysis
• Molecular evolution
• Primates > Evolution
• Evolution
• Primaten
• Proteine
• Evolucao Humana
• Gen

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Based in part on the papers presented at the Symposium on Progress in Molecular Anthropology held at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, July 25-August 1, 1975."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

What is molecular anthropology? / Gabriel W. Lasker -- Mutation and molecular evolution / F. Vogel, M. Kopun, and R. Rathenberg -- The fossil record of primate phylogeny / Elwyn L. Simons -- Splitting times among hominoids deduced from the fossil record / Alan Walker -- Information theory, molecular evolution, and the concepts of von Neumann / Lila L. Gatlin -- Random and nonrandom processes in the molecular evolution of higher organisms / Richard Holmquist -- Proof for the maximum parsimony ("Red King") algorithm / G. William Moore -- Molecular systematics of the primates / Vincent M. Sarich and John E. Cronin -- Immunodiffusion evidence on the phylogeny of the primates / Howard T. Dene, Morris Goodman, and William Prychodko -- Evolutionary rates in proteins : neutral mutations and the molecular clock / Walter M. Fitch and Charles H. Langley -- Evolution of the primary structures of primate and other vertebrate hemoglobins / Genji Matsuda -- The hemoglobins of Tarsius bancanus / Jan M. Beard and Morris Goodman -- Old World monkey hemoglobins : deciphering phylogeny from complex patterns of molecular evolution / David Hewett-Emmett, Christopher N. Cook, and N.A. Barnicot -- Structure and function of baboon hemoglobins / Bolling Sullivan, Joseph Bonaventura, Celia Bonaventura, and Peter E. Nute -- Evolution of myoglobin amino acid sequences in primates and other vertebrates / A.E. Romero-Herrera, H. Lehmann, K.A. Joysey, and A.E. Friday -- Evolution of carbonic anhydrase in primates and other mammals / Richard E. Tashian, Morris Goodman, Robert E. Ferrell, and Robert J. Tanis -- Toward a genealogical description of the primates / Morris Goodman -- Comparative aspects of DNA in higher primates / K.W. Jones -- Evolutionary origin of antibody specificity / N. Hilschmann, H. Kratzin, P. Altevogt, E. Ruban, A. Kortt, C. Staroscik, R. Scholz, W. Palm, H.U. Barnikol, S. Barnikol-Watanabe, J. Bertram, J. Horn, M. Engelhard, M. Schneider, and L. Dreker -- Programs of gene action and progressive evolution / Emile Zuckerkandl.

ISBN

• 0306309483
• 9780306309489

LCCN

76045445

OCLC

• ocm02524670
• 2524670
• SCSB-296546

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library