Biodiversity and Evolution

About this book

Biodiversity and Evolution includes chapters devoted to the evolution and biodiversity of organisms at the molecular level, based on the study of natural collections from the Museum of Natural History. Biodiversity and Evolution starts with an epistemological and historical introduction and ends with a critical overview of the Anthropocene epoch.

Contents

1. From Richard Owen to Charles Darwin: Understanding the Origin of Life’s Diversity
      Claudine Cohen
2. Life Engineering in an Evolutionary World
      Thomas Heams
3. The View of Systematics on Biodiversity
      Philippe Grandcolas
4. Which Model(s) Explain Biodiversity?
      Guillaume Achaz
5. Analysis of Microbial Diversity: Regarding the (Paradoxical) Difficulty of Seeing Big in Metagenomics
      Chloé Vigliotti, Philippe Lopez and Eric Bapteste
6. Genetic Code Degeneracy and Amino Acid Frequency in Proteomes
      Jean Lehmann
7. Telomeres and Telomerases: Structural Diversity for the Same Role
      Carole Saintomé
8. Globalization and Infectious Diseases
      Thierry Wirth
9. Why are Morpho Blue?
      Vincent Debat, Serge Berthier, Patrick Blandin, Nicolas Chazot, Marianne Elias, Doris Gomez and Violaine Llaurens
10. Biodiversity in Natural History Collections: a Source of Data for the Study of Evolution
      Romain Nattier
11. Mice and Men: an Evolutionary History of Lassa Fever
      Aude Lalis and Thierry Wirth
12. Evolutionary History of Moles in Western Europe: One Mole May Hide Another!
      Violaine Nicolas, Jessica Martinez-vargas and Jean-Pierre Hugot
13. The Conoidea and Their Toxins: Evolution of a Hyper-Diversified Group
      Nicolas Puillandre and Sébastien Dutertre
14. The Anthropocene: a Geological or Societal Subject?
      Patrick de Wever and Stan Finney

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Biography

Philippe Grandcolas is a Senior Scientist CNRS and Director at the Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversite. Marie-Christine Maurel is a professor- researcher at UPMC and MNHN.