BIOL 471 Evolution George Mason

feature The mosaic that is our genome Svante Pbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany (e-mail: paabo@eva.mpg.de) The discovery of the basis of genetic variation has opened inroads to unders

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 96, pp. 55815585, May 1999 Evolution DNA sequence of the mitochondrial hypervariable region II from the Neandertal type specimen MATTHIAS K RINGS*, HELGA GEISERT*, RALF W. SCHMITZ, HEIKE K RAINITZKI, AND SVANTE PAAB

Thinking of Biology The Best and the Worst of Times for Evolutionary Biology JOHN C. AVISE The 21st century will offer great opportunities, but also challenges, for the field of evolutionary biology, particularly in areas related to molecular genet

ering soon might be extended to cells in the human germ line (Stock and Campbell 2000). In contrast to somatic gene ther

d Bacillus thuringiensis. These microbial genes confer resistance against particular insect pests. Ideally, these GM c

nces. By replicatively dispersing themselves across the genome, transposable elements enhance their own prospects for tr

es provide markers of patrilines in many human societies. Data of mtDNA show that all modern human matrilines trace to e

between organismal lineages (Bushman 2002), as mediated by retroviruses or other means, will also be documented. Some cl

queeze from the planet much of the exuberant biodiversity that traces in ancestry back across 4 billion years. Aldo Leop