mf@mrecvax.UUCP (Mauricio Fernandez) (08/30/88)
I'm interested in human evolution research but it's too little what it's done. I'll do appreciate any information about which are the trends in this area, what institutes are working on this and what readings are suggested. Thanks in advance. Daniela Tosto. Department of Biologic Sciences. University of Buenos Aires. daniela@dcfcen.edu.ar or uunet!atina!dcfcen!daniela
toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) (09/01/88)
In article <450@mrecvax.UUCP> daniela@dcfcen.edu.ar (Daniela Tosto) writes: >I'm interested in human evolution research Check out this reference, it's amazing: R. L. Cann, M. Stoneking, and A. C. Wilson, Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution, Nature 325:31-36, 1987 Tom
jyamato@cory.Berkeley.EDU (YAMATO JON AYAO) (09/03/88)
In article <597@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes: >In article <450@mrecvax.UUCP> daniela@dcfcen.edu.ar (Daniela Tosto) writes: >>I'm interested in human evolution research >Check out this reference, it's amazing: >R. L. Cann, M. Stoneking, and A. C. Wilson, >Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution, >Nature 325:31-36, 1987 >Tom Also check out the controversy it generated, however--Wilson lab tends to get a wee bit dogmatic about its findings, and you'll get a better view of the situation if you read other people's contibutions too. Summaries of this work in the popular press, where it is usually referred to as "the Eve discovery", are pretty uniformly misleading. It is worth pointing out that the discovery is of a common ancestor for human mitochondrial DNA, not for human genes in general. Evidence is becoming available that several of the Human Leukocyte Antigen alleles predate humankind, and that therefore there have always been at least several humans in the line of descent for nuclear genes. Mary Kuhner