The post-civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by discoveries in gene…
This work explores how race as a category - reinforced by new discoveries in genetics - is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
How race as a category-reinforced by new discoveries in genetics-is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the evolutionary processes, describing the chromosome structure, genetic variation, multifactorial genome, polyploidy, gene duplication and speciation. Part 2 deals with the origins of agriculture and the dynamics of plant d…
World forests. Multiple uses of forest trees. Structure of genetic variation. Conservation and management of tree genetic resources. Instituition involved in managing tree genetic resources. Organizing a global system of cooperation.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "figures from text--in PowerPoint and JPEG formats; supplementary sidebars; mini-lectures; movies."--CD-ROM label.
"For evolutionary biologists, the concept of chance has always played a significant role in the formation of evolutionary theory. As far back as Greek antiquity, chance and "luck" were understood to be key factors in the evolution of the natural world. Emphasizing chance is an e…
Geographic variation within tree species is one of the basic issues facing foresters, biologists, and others who work with trees. Genetic differences among and within populations of these trees become important considerations when forests are regenerated artificially by seeding …