Evolution in Action

1/29/02


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Table of Contents

Evolution in Action

The Evolutionary Algorithm

Evolution on Many Levels

Evolution in DNA

A Nearly Perfect Copy

Why GC’s are Rare

Why It’s Better to be Black

Mutagenic chemicals

Double Stranded Breaks

Transposons

Viruses

Sex

Crossing Over

Advantages of Sex

Polyploidy

The Value of Duplications

Comparing Human vs. Human

Human vs. Chimpanzee

Human vs. Mouse

Human vs. Worm

Evolving an Immune Response

Evolution of Multicellular Life

Multicellular Forms Continued

Evolution of Cancer

The Peculiar Dangers of Smoking

Engineering vs. Nature

Startling Conclusions

The End

A Gene Cluster in Fly

HOX in Humans

Author: David Haussler

Email: kent@soe.ucsc.edu

Home Page: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent

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Evolution in Action