Genetics of Primate Evolution

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Systematics and Phylogenetics is a primer on molecular phylogeny from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

The Genome database is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI. It provides views for a variety of genomes, complete chromosomes, sequence maps with contigs, and integrated genetic and physical maps.

Genome Mapping: A Guide to the Genetic Highway We Call the Human Genome is an NCBI primer on genome mapping.

"Initial Sequence of the Chimpanzee Genome and Comparison with the Human Genome" is a journal article that presents a draft genome sequence of the common chimpanzee.

"Diversity in Cell Surface Sialic Acid Presentations: Implications for Biology and Disease" is a review article on sialic acids and their implications for biology and disease.

"Biological Roles of Oligosaccharides: All of the Theories are Correct" is a review article that covers the biological roles of oligosaccharides.

"Glycobiology and Medicine: An Introduction" is a review article from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine that offers an introduction to this area of clinical and basic research.

News release about the Center for Academic Research Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), a broad-based group of scholars focused on explaining human origins.

"In Search of What Makes Us Human" is part of The Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution where the goal is to enhance scientific knowledge and public awareness of human evolutionary history.

Human Origins webpage at the London Natural History Museum

Current research projects on human origins funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" is an article by Theodosius Dobzhansky that was published in The American Biology Teacher.