Nothing in Medicine Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution: A Review
Applying evolutionary biology to medical problems is surprisingly new and still absent from medical as well biological teaching, despite the fact that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” (T. Dobzhansky in Am. Biol. Teach. 35:
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Pierre Pontarotti Editor
Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application
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Editor: Dr. Pierre Pontarotti UMR 6632 Université d’Aix-Marseille/CNRS Laboratoire Evolution Biologique et Modélisation, case 19 3, Place Victor Hugo 13331 Marseille Cedex 03 France [email protected]
ISBN: 978-3-540-78992-5 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78993-2
e-ISBN: 978-3-540-78993-2
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Preface
Every biological system is the outcome of its evolutionary history; therefore, the deciphering of the evolutionary history is of tremendous importance to understand biology. Since 1997, scientists of different disciplines who share a deep interest in evolutionary biology concepts and knowledge have held an “evolutionary biology meeting at Marseilles” in order to discuss their research, exchange ideas, and start collaborations. Lately, scientists interested in the application of the concepts have joined the group. This book is a selection of what I think are the most representative talks of 11th meeting as they represent an up-to-date overview of concepts of evolution and how these concepts can be used to understand biology in general. The book comprises several topics that we have arranged in different subcategories: modelization of evolution (Yu: Chap. 1, Meade and Pagel: Chap. 2), concepts in evolutionary biology (Toll-Riera et al: Chap. 3, Erenpreisa and Cragg: Chap. 4, Mikhalevich: Chap. 5, Raineri: Chap. 6), knowledge (Shimizu: Chap. 7, Hwang et al: Chap. 8), and applied evolutionary biology (Barth´el´emy et al: Chap. 9, Hilu and Barthet: Chap. 10, Kryger and Scholtz: Chap. 11, Swynghedauw: Chap. 12, Levasseur and Pontarotti: Chap. 13). I hope that this book will be useful not only to evolutionary biologists but also to biologists in general and that it will help to produc
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