The future of selection: Individuality, the twin legacies of Lamarck &Darwin

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-50

  Hoenigsberg, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MANUELA BELTRÁN   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Future selection; Immune system; Lamarck Darwin legacies; Somatic selection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BIOGENESIS; CALLOSITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FITNESS; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INDIVIDUALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 2342432416     PISSN: 16765680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol1-1gmr004     Document Type: Review

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