evolutionary genetics

Professor Bryan Sykes gives a firsthand account of his research into a gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line.

A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history.

Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take.

Examines the mysteries of the natural world where living things appear to be miraculously designed for the lives they lead, offering as an explanation a gradual evolution that enabled the bodies of flightless animals to sprout wings and the eye to evolve at least forty times.

Professor Bryan Sykes gives a firsthand account of his research into a gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line.

An introduction to evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo Devo, that explains how and why scientists have been trying to unlock the secret of how a single embryo develops into a billion- or trillion-celled animal.

Professor Bryan Sykes gives a firsthand account of his research into a gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line.

Examines the mysteries of the natural world where living things appear to be miraculously designed for the lives they lead, offering as an explanation a gradual evolution that enabled the bodies of flightless animals to sprout wings and the eye to evolve at least forty times.

Presents a discussion of evolution based on discoveries in genetics since the late 1980s, covering topics such as introns, transposable elements, mutation, and natural selection, and includes a critique of the theory called intelligent design.