Molecular Anthropology: Genes and Proteins in the Evolutionary Ascent of the Primates. Book + Online

I. Background to Some Key Issues.- 1 What Is Molecular Anthropology?.- 2 Mutation and Molecular Evolution.- 3 The Fossil Record of Primate Phylogeny.- 4 Splitting Times among Hominoids Deduced from the Fossil Record.- II. Molecular Evolution as Interpreted by Mathematical Models.- 5 Information Theory, Molecular Evolution, and the Concepts of von Neumann.- 6 Random and Nonrandom Processes in the Molecular Evolution of Higher Organisms.- 7 Proof for the Maximum Parsimony ("Red King") Algorithm.- III. Primate Phylogeny and the Molecular Clock Controversy.- 8 Molecular Systematics of the Primates.- 9 Immunodiffusion Evidence on the Phylogeny of the Primates.- 10 Evolutionary Rates in Proteins: Neutral Mutations and the Molecular Clock.- IV. Primate Evolution Inferred from Amino Acid Sequence Data.- 11 Evolution of the Primary Structures of Primate and Other Vertebrate Hemoglobins.- 12 The Hemoglobins of Tarsius bancanus.- 13 Old World Monkey Hemoglobins: Deciphering Phylogeny from Complex Patterns of Molecular Evolution.- 14 Structure and Function of Baboon Hemoglobins.- 15 Evolution of Myoglobin Amino Acid Sequences in Primates and Other Vertebrates.- 16 Evolution of Carbonic Anhydrase in Primates and Other Mammals.- 17 Toward a Genealogical Description of the Primates.- V. Multigene Families and Genetic Regulation in the Evolution of Man.- 18 Comparative Aspects of DNA in Higher Primates.- 19 Evolutionary Origin of Antibody Specificity.- 20 Programs of Gene Action and Progressive Evolution.