Some years ago, population genetics was an esoteric discipline, apparently relevant only to
those interested in developing a rigorous theory of how evolution occurred. Most biologists …

Some years ago, population genetics was an esoteric discipline, apparently relevant only to
those interested in developing a rigorous theory of how evolution occurred. Most biologists …

'This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.'This has to
be one of the boldest understatements in all of biology, written 50 years ago in Nature by …

The mid-20th century discoveries that created molecular biology's 'central dogma'provided a
conceptual framework that subsequent technological innovations have clothed in data at an …

UK LEI 7RH. w hat is molecular ecology? For me, it is in part the inevitable successor of EB
Ford's 'ecological genetics'. When I first read Ford's famous text'many years ago I was …

The Fourth Edition of Genetics of Populations is the most current, comprehensive, and
accessible introduction to the field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and …

IN this era of restriction enzymes and plasmids, it is easy to forget that what passed for Nobel
Prize-winning research just a few decades ago is now accessible to high school students …

Four years ago we edited a volume of 36 papers entitled Molecular Approaches to Ecology
and Evolution (Schierwater et ai., 1994), in which we attempted to put to gether a diverse …

This collection of 17 wide-ranging articles shows the remarkable applicability of molecular
approaches to many aspects of ecology and evolution. The articles are all in the format of …

Evolutionary biology is one of the most fascinating and controversial fields of science, and its
principles are fundamental to science as a whole. Presented here are 48 classic papers …