[bionet.molbio.evolution] Books and articles of note in molecular evolution

davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (11/11/89)

The list has been kinda silent for a while so I thought I would note
recent articles, book reviews, and books that I found interesting.



Was Adenine the First Purine? Alan W. Schwartz and C.G. Baker,
Science, 8 Sept., 245:1102-1104

Book reviews:
Evolution and the Fossil Record, Ed. by K. Allen and D. Briggs,
Belhaven, London, 1989.  In Nature, 340:684, 1989 (31 August)

Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference.
By Elliot Sober, MIT Press, 1989.  Reviewed in Nature 10 August
1989, 340:442 (interesting review as well as book).

Books:
Evolutionary Genetics, Maynard-Smith, Oxford Press, 1989, paperback. 
ISBN 0-19-854215-1 (Junior/Senior undergrad & beginning grad student
level). 

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dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of
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