The literature about species concepts might be larger than that about any other subject in
evolutionary biology, but the issue of empirically testing species boundaries has been given …

Phylogeography is a young, vigorous and integrative field of study that uses genetic data to
understand the history of populations. This field has recently expanded into many areas of …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

A fundamental problem in biology is the evolutionary transition from single cells to
multicellular life forms,,. During this transition the unit of selection shifts from individual cells …

" Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive
treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary …

Haplotype phylogenies based on DNA sequence data are increasingly being used to test
traditional species-level taxonomies based on morphology. However, few studies have …

Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory Explore the fundamentals of the
biological implications of population genetic theory In the newly revised Second Edition of …

Conservation biology has been accurately described as a crisis discipline. Much like the
human disease crisis disciplines of HIV biology and cancer biology, conservation biology …

The publication of a haplotype tree of human mitochondrial DNA variation in 1987 provoked
a controversy about the details of recent human evolution that continues to this day. Now …

DNA techniques, analytical methods and palaeoclimatic studies are greatly advancing our
knowledge of the global distribution of genetic diversity, and how it evolved. Such …