Where Do We Come From? : the Molecular Evidence for Human Descent /
From the moment it first began to contemplate the world, three questions have occupied the human mind: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Artists (notably Paul Gauguin), religious thinkers, philosophers, and most recently scientists have all searched for answers. Here, the autho...
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- A Tahitian Prelude: Art, Myth, and Science
- Bridging the Generation Gap: The Physical Basis of Ancestor-Descendent Relationship
- Crane's Foot: Biological Meaning of Descent
- Klados and Phyl: The Molecular Nature of Evolution
- The Painted Tree: Methods of Phylogenetic Reconstruction
- The Tree of Life: From the Root to the Crown
- The Rise of the Metazoan Tribes: The New Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom
- Our Place in Nature: The Closest Living Relative
- Of Time and the Tree: The Time Scale of Evolution
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Hominids and the Origin of Homo sapiens
- Through the Neck of a Bottle: The Genesis and the Genetic Nature of Homo sapiens
- Who Are We? Where are We Going?: The Present Condition and the Future of Our Species
- Sources and Further Reading
- Appendices One to Five
- Illustration and Quotation Credits.