Evolution by Gene Duplication

Susumu Ohno

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Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 2014, 2014

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is said that 'necessity is the mother of invention'. To be sure, wheels and pulleys were invented out of necessity by the tenacious minds of upright citi zens. Looking at the history of mankind, however, one has to add that 'Ieisure is the mother of cultural improvement'. Man's creative genius flourished only when his mind, freed from the worry of daily toils, was permitted to entertain apparently useless thoughts. In the same manner, one might say with regard to evolution that 'natural selection mere(y tnodifted, while redundanry created'. Natural selection has been extremely effective in policing alleHe mutations which arise in already existing gene loci. Because of natural selection, organisms have been able to adapt to changing environments, and by adaptive radiation many new species were created from a common ancestral form. Y et, being an effective policeman, natural selection is extremely conservative by nature. Had evolution been entirely dependent upon natural selection, from a bacterium only numerous forms of bacteria would have emerged. The creation of metazoans, vertebrates and finally mammals from unicellular organisms would have been quite impos sible, for such big leaps in evolution required the creation of new gene loci with previously nonexistent functions. Only the cistron which became redun dant was able to escape from the relentless pressure of natural selection, and by escaping, it accumulated formerly forbidden mutations to emerge as a new gene locus. 180 pp. Englisch.

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Title
Evolution by Gene Duplication
Author
Susumu Ohno
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 2014
Publication year
2014
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Language
English
ISBN 10
3642866611
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351 grams
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254x178x11 mm

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