This book is the outcome of the international workshop "The Origins and Past of Homo sapiens sapiens as viewed from DNA" held Dec. 14-17, 1993, at Kyoto, Japan. The contributors are first-class molecular geneticists, population geneticists and physical anthropologists from USA, UK, Italy, Japan, China, Australia and South Africa who have up-to-date data on the problems of the origins of modern humans. The papers not only present original data, but also vividly discuss the most relevant topics such as diversity of new DNA markers, molecular phylogenetics, origins of Asian Populations including the Japanese, single vs multiple origin hypotheses and so on. This book is unique in balancing the two entirely different approaches of human evolution, one using molecules and the other fossils.

The Origin and Past of Modern Humans As Viewed from DNA: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Origin and Past of Homo Sapiens (Sapiens As Viewed from Dna) (Recent Advances in Human Biology, V. 1)

Politics & Social Sciences

Brenner, Sydney

Workshop on the Origin and Past of Homo Sapiens Sapiens As Viewed from

International Institute for Advanced Studies (Kyoto, Japan)

Anthropology

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

In October 2017, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner (Physiology or Medicine, 2002) gave four lectures on the history of Molecular Biology, its impact on Neuroscience and the great scientific questions that lie ahead.Sydney Brenner has been at the centre of the development of molecular biology, being a key player in shaping the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge into a cradle of research, where pioneering and seminal discoveries in the field for over half a century have resulted in more than half a dozen Nobel Prizes.His memory is a treasure trove of the history of the field with innumerable anecdotes on other leading scientists in the past 60 years. These lectures trace the history and recount some of those anecdotes. His interlocutor Terry Sejnowski is the Francis Crick professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Laboratory Head of its Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. Terry and Sydney are long-term collaborators and they share many stories and memories.The recorded lectures are the basis for this book. It aims to preserve the history of molecular biology and to also raise scientific questions that have resulted from the work of Sydney, Terry and others. It should be read by everybody who is interested in the generation, history and impact of great ideas as recounted by one of the legends of 20th century science.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.

In The Spirit Of Science: Lectures By Sydney Brenner On Dna, Worms And Brains

Science & Math

Sejnowski, Terrence

Biological Sciences

WSPC

LOOSE ENDS...FALSE STARTS

Sydney Brenner was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Medicine and Science). He then moved to Oxford and received a D.Phil in 1952, before joining the MRC Unit in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in 1956. His various accomplishments include serving as the Director of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, founding the Molecular Science Institute in Berkeley, holding the position of Distinguished Professor at the Salk Institute, La Jolla. And during his last years, Sydney Brenner played a key role in shaping research and development in the biomedical sector in Singapore as A*Star Senior Fellow.He was one of the greatest biologists of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002 for his pioneering work in the field of molecular biology. He was also known for his boundless curiosity, sharp intellect and courage to speak with clarity and characteristic wit as evident in this delightful book which is a compilation of the columns that he wrote for Current Biology in the late '90s.

Loose Ends...False Starts

In October 2017, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner (Physiology or Medicine, 2002) gave four lectures on the history of Molecular Biology, its impact on Neuroscience and the great scientific questions that lie ahead.
Sydney Brenner has been at the centre of the development of molecular biology, being a key player in shaping the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge into a cradle of research, where pioneering and seminal discoveries in the field for over half a century have resulted in more than half a dozen Nobel Prizes.
His memory is a treasure trove of the history of the field with innumerable anecdotes on other leading scientists in the past 60 years. These lectures trace the history and recount some of those anecdotes. His interlocutor Terry Sejnowski is the Francis Crick professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Laboratory Head of its Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. Terry and Sydney are long-term collaborators and they share many stories and memories.
The recorded lectures are the basis for this book. It aims to preserve the history of molecular biology and to also raise scientific questions that have resulted from the work of Sydney, Terry and others. It should be read by everybody who is interested in the generation, history and impact of great ideas as recounted by one of the legends of 20th century science.

In the Spirit of Science: Lectures by Sydney Brenner on Dna, Worms and Brains

World Scientific Publishing Company

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