Chapter 4: Genes and Their Evolution: Population Genetics
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- CHAPTER 4 GENES AND THEIR EVOLUTION: POPULATION GENETICS
- BIG QUESTION
- Demes, Reproductive Isolation, and Species
- Hardy-Weinberg Law: Testing the Conditions of Genetic Equilibrium
- ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS: Got Milk?: Lactose Intolerance and Lactase Defi ciency
- Mutation: The Only Source of New Alleles
- Natural Selection: Advantageous Characteristics, Survival, and Reproduction
- Patterns of Natural Selection
- HOW DO WE KNOW?: Hardy-Weinberg Visits the Classroom: The Case of PTC Tasters vs. PTC Nontasters
- Natural Selection in Animals: The Case of the Peppered Moth and Industrial Melanism
- Natural Selection in Humans: Abnormal Hemoglobins and Resistance to Malaria
- The Geography of Sickle-Cell Anemia and a Possible Association with Malaria
- The Biology of Sickle-Cell Anemia and Malarial Infection
- The History of Sickle-Cell Anemia and Malaria
- Other Hemoglobin and Enzyme Abnormalities
- Genetic Drift: Genetic Change Due to Chance
- Founder Effect: A Special Kind of Genetic Drift
- Gene Flow: Spread of Genes across Population Boundaries
- Genetic Markers Document Gene Flow: Agriculture and Origins of Modern Europeans
- CONCEPT CHECK: What Causes Evolution?
- ANSWERING THE BIG QUESTION
- Key Terms
- Additional Readings
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