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Neanderthal man : in search of lost genomes / by Pbo, Svante.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Neanderthal ex Machina -- Mummies and molecules -- Amplifying the past -- Dinousaurs in the lab -- Human frustrations -- A Croatian connection -- A new home -- Multiregional controversies -- Nuclear tests -- Going nuclear -- Starting the genome project -- Hard bones -- The devil in the details -- Mapping the genome -- From bones to genome -- Gene flow? -- First insights -- Gene flow! -- The replacement crowd -- Human essence? -- Publishing the genome -- A very unusual finger -- A Neanderthal relative.What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.
Subjects: Genome analysis.; Human population genetics.; Neanderthals.;
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Origin : a genetic history of the Americas / by Raff, Jennifer,author.(CARDINAL)863363;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-316) and index.20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. No written records--and scant archaeological evidence--exist to tell us what happened or how it took place. This is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived, based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes.
Subjects: Informational works.; DNA, Fossil.; DNA, Fossil; Human genome.; Human genome; Indians of North America; Paleontology; Population genetics.;
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Scanning life's matrix [videorecording] : genes, proteins, and small molecules / by Lander, Eric S.; Howard Hughes Medical Institute.(CARDINAL)274867;
Reading genes and genomes / Eric S. Lander (60 min.) -- Probing genes and genomes / Stuart L. Schreiber (60 min.) -- Human genomics : a new guide for medicine / Eric S. Lander (60 min.) -- Chemical genomics : new tools for medicine / Stuart L. Schreiber (60 min.).Producer, Ann DeStefano Sutherland ; director, Wally Ashby.Introductions by Thomas R. Cech ; lectures by Stuart L. Schreiber and Eric S. Lander.Four lectures on genomic science and chemical genetics, with emphasis on how molecular biology, robotics, and advanced computation are combining to characterize a new generation of biomedical research.DVD.
Subjects: Biochemical genetics.; Human genome.; Human molecular genetics.; Medical genetics.; Genomics.; Molecular Biology.; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis.;
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Origin [sound recording] : a genetic history of the Americas / by Raff, Jennifer,author.; Parenteau, Tanis,narrator.;
Read by Tanis Parenteau.20,000 years ago, people crossed a land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward. This book explores how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Population genetics.; Indians of North America; Human genome; Paleontology; DNA, Fossil;
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Who we are and how we got here : ancient DNA and the new science of the human past / by Reich, David(Of Harvard Medical School),author.(CARDINAL)353007;
Introduction -- Part I: The deep history of our species. How the genome explains who we are ; Encounters the Neanderthals ; Ancient DNA opens the floodgates -- Part II: How we got to where we are today. Humanity's ghosts ; The making of modern Europe ; The collision that formed India ; In search of Native American ancestors ; The genomic origins of East Asians ; Rejoining Africa to the human story -- Part III: The disruptive genome. The genomics of inequality ; The genomics of race and identity ; The future of ancient DNA."A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that genomics is as important a means of understanding the human past as archeology, linguistics, and the written word. Now, in The New Science of the Human Past, Reich describes with unprecedented clarity just how the human genome provides not only all the information that a fertilized human egg needs to develop but also contains within it the history of our species. He delineates how the Genomic Revolution and ancient DNA are transforming our understanding of our own lineage as modern humans; how genomics deconstructs the idea that there are no biologically meaningful differences among human populations (though without adherence to pernicious racist hierarchies); and how DNA studies reveal the deep history of human inequality--among different populations, between the sexes, and among individuals within a population"--Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Human genetics; Genomics; DNA; Prehistoric peoples.; Human population genetics.;
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Who we are and how we got here : ancient DNA revolution and the new science of the human past / by Reich, David(Of Harvard Medical School),author.(CARDINAL)353007;
"A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that genomics is as important a means of understanding the human past as archeology, linguistics, and the written word. Now, in The New Science of the Human Past, Reich describes with unprecedented clarity just how the human genome provides not only all the information that a fertilized human egg needs to develop but also contains within it the history of our species. He delineates how the Genomic Revolution and ancient DNA are transforming our understanding of our own lineage as modern humans; how genomics deconstructs the idea that there are no biologically meaningful differences among human populations (though without adherence to pernicious racist hierarchies); and how DNA studies reveal the deep history of human inequality--among different populations, between the sexes, and among individuals within a population"--Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Human genetics; Genomics; DNA; Prehistoric peoples.; Human population genetics.;
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Who we are and how we got here : the ancient DNA revolution and the new science of the human past / by Reich, David(Of Harvard Medical School),author.(CARDINAL)353007;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that genomics is as important a means of understanding the human past as archeology, linguistics, and the written word. Now, in The New Science of the Human Past, Reich describes with unprecedented clarity just how the human genome provides not only all the information that a fertilized human egg needs to develop but also contains within it the history of our species. He delineates how the Genomic Revolution and ancient DNA are transforming our understanding of our own lineage as modern humans; how genomics deconstructs the idea that there are no biologically meaningful differences among human populations (though without adherence to pernicious racist hierarchies); and how DNA studies reveal the deep history of human inequality--among different populations, between the sexes, and among individuals within a population"--
Subjects: Human genetics; Genomics; DNA; Prehistoric peoples.; Human population genetics.;
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Permanent markers : race, ancestry, and the body after the genome / by Abel, Sarah(Cultural anthropologist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The world in our DNA -- Geno-myths -- The geneticist's dilemma -- Technologies of the self -- Marked bodies -- Essential origins -- Historically modified organisms."Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of intensified interest in issues of race and racism, the burgeoning influence of corporations like AncestryDNA and 23andMe has sparked debates about the commodification of identity, the antiracist potential of genetic science, and the promises and pitfalls of using DNA as a source of 'objective' knowledge about the past. This book engages these debates by looking at the ways genomic ancestry testing has been used in Brazil and the United States to address the histories and legacies of slavery, from personal genealogical projects to collective racial politics"--
Subjects: Genetic genealogy; Genetic genealogy; DNA; Genomics; Human genetics; Identity (Psychology); Biotechnology industries;
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Insect molecular genetics : an introduction to principles and applications / by Hoy, Marjorie A.(CARDINAL)854169;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Ch. 1. DNA and Gene Structure -- Ch. 2. DNA Replication, Mutations, and Recombination -- Ch. 3. Transcription, Translation, and Regulation of Eukaryotic DNA -- Ch. 4. Chromosomal and Extrachromosomal Organization of DNA in Insects -- Ch. 5. Genes, Genome Organization, and Development in Insects -- Ch. 6. Some Basic Tools: How to Cut, Paste, Copy, Measure, and Visualize DNA -- Ch. 7. Cloning and Expression Vectors, Libraries, and Their Screening -- Ch. 8. DNA Sequencing and Genome Analysis -- Ch. 9. DNA Amplification by the Polymerase Chain Reaction: Molecular Biology Made Accessible -- Ch. 10. P Elements and P-Element Vectors for Transforming Drosophila -- Ch. 11. Sex Determination in Insects -- Ch. 12. Molecular Genetics of Insect Behavior -- Ch. 13. Insect Molecular Systematics and Evolution -- Ch. 14. Insect Population Ecology and Molecular Genetics -- Ch. 15. Transgenic Pest and Beneficial Arthropods for Pest Management Programs -- Appendix I: Time Line of Events in Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Insect Molecular Genetics.
Subjects: Insects;
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A life decoded : my genome, my life / by Venter, J. Craig.(CARDINAL)734476;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-374) and index.Writing my code -- University of death -- Adrenaline junkie -- Starting over in Buffalo -- Scientific heaven, bureaucratic hell -- Big biology -- TIGR cub -- Gene wars -- Shotgun sequencing -- Institutional divorce -- Sequencing the human -- Mad magazine and destructive businessmen -- Flying forward -- The first human genome -- The White House, June 26, 2000 -- Publish and be damned -- Blue planet and new life.The story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. After nearly flunking out of high school, Venter went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. In 1984 he joined the National Institutes of Health, introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to form his own nonprofit genomics research center, where he sequenced the first genome in history in 1995. In 1998 he announced that he would successfully sequence the human genome years sooner, and for far less money, than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project would--a prediction he kept in 2001. The tale involves as much politics (personal and political) as science. He also describes the other startling projects he has conducted since.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Venter, J. Craig.; Geneticists; Human gene mapping; DNA;
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