From the Amazon blurb,
"Controversy over human evolution remains widespread. However, the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species have provided myriad precise and unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationships with other mammals.
Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies identifies and explains these identifiable, rare and complex markers including endogenous retroviruses, genome-modifying transposable elements, gene-disabling mutations, segmental duplications and gene-enabling mutations.
The new genetic tools also provide fascinating insights into when and how many features of human biology arose: from aspects of placental structure, vitamin C dependence and trichromatic vision, to tendencies to gout, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Bringing together a decade's worth of research and tying it together to provide an overwhelming argument for the mammalian ancestry of the human species, the book will be of interest to professional scientists and students in both the biological and biomedical sciences."
Finlay is a world-recognised expert in these matters and is motivated by finding out knowledge that can help identify ways of fighting cancer.
He also happens to be a Christian, and a preacher. Here is a brief profile. https://www.nzcis.org/who-we-are/dr-graeme-finlay/
Now I don't believe in God, but I have no trouble with those believers who accept mainstream science. Finlay has contributed a great deal to it and I greatly value the work he has done.
No comments:
Post a Comment