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The Phylogeny of Human Chromosomes

Authors:

  1. Héctor N. Seuánez

    1. Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. The Origin of Man

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Man, the Most Intelligent Ape

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 3-7

    3. The Fossil Record and the Emergence of Modern Man

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 8-14

    4. Man and His Classification

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 15-19

    5. The Theory of Evolution, Genes, and Chromosomes

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 20-24

  3. Cytotaxonomy and the Evolution of Man and the Great Apes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    5. Chromosome Variation Versus Chromosome Fixation

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 79-83

  4. Comparative Gene Mapping and Molecular Cytogenetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Composition of the Human Genome

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 87-94

    4. Evolution of Structural Gene Sequences

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 101-110

    5. Comparative Gene Mapping in Man and Other Primates

      • Héctor N. Seuánez
      Pages 111-127
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About this book

The question of how man has emerged must be as old as human thought itself. However, it was not until last century that, amidst a storm of opposition and highly emotional criticism, man was first conceived as a product of evolution rather than creation. Moreover, it is not yet thirty years since the chemical composition and molecular structure of the hereditary material was fully understood or the chromosome number of man became known. It should not be surprising then, to find how little, at present, we understand how our genes and chromosomes operate, and how they have evolved during phylogeny. In this work I have discussed how our own chromosomes have been transmitted and altered as far back as we may trace their phylogeny into the past. To make the work more complete, the composition and evolution of our own genome had also to be consiered in order to understand some of the recent findings at the chromosome level. These have resulted from using methods for localizing repetitive and single copy DNA sequences in chromosomes. Moreover, the development of biochemical methods of studying evolution at the macromolecular level has not only led to a more complete understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms, but has enabled us to make comparisons with evolutionary change at the chromosome level. In addition, a simple reference to the fossil record was necessary, because impressive discoveries in recent years have supplied valuable data on man's evolution.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Héctor N. Seuánez

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Phylogeny of Human Chromosomes

  • Authors: Héctor N. Seuánez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67260-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-09303-9Published: 01 July 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67260-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 190

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Genetics, Cell Biology, Zoology

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