The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has dramatically altered how molecular studies are
conducted as well as what questions can be asked. In addition to simplifying molecular tasks …

Debate on the validity and reliability of scientific methods often arises in the courtroom.
When the government (ie, the prosecution) is the proponent of evidence, the defense is …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

Episodes of population growth and decline leave characteristic signatures in the distribution
of nucleotide (or restriction) site differences between pairs of individuals. These signatures …

PubChem's BioAssay database (https://pubchem. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov) has served as a public
repository for small-molecule and RNAi screening data since 2004 providing open access of …

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and
morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the …

The origin and taxonomic status of domesticated cattle are controversial. Zebu and taurine
breeds are differentiated primarily by the presence or absence of a hump and have been …

Ethology and Sociobiology, and Psychological Bulletin. The book dispassionately catalogs a
vast array of data (intellectual, personality, reproductive, and physiological) on the three …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

The proposal that all mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) types in contemporary humans stem from
a common ancestor present in an African population some 200,000 years ago has attracted …