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
Email: kent@biology.ucsc.edu
Home Page: www.cse.ucsc.edu/~kent
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