Dieser Wissenschaftler beschäftigt sich mit der Evolution genetischer Regulation im Kontext der biologischen Entwicklung. Anhand von Fruchtfliegen als Modellsystem untersucht er, wie sich cis-regulatorische Regionen im Laufe der Evolution verändern. Seine Arbeit zielt darauf ab, die grundlegenden Mechanismen zu beleuchten, die die Vielfalt und Komplexität des Lebens steuern.
Nachdem das Genom des Menschen und vieler anderer Tiere vollständig entschlüsselt ist, bekommt man durch einen Vergleich völlig neuartige Einblicke in den Prozess der Evolution. Sean B. Carroll, einer der renommiertesten Forscher auf dem Gebiet der vergleichenden DNA-Forschung, erzählt in seinem spannenden Buch von uralten, 'unsterblichen' Genen, die alle Lebewesen besitzen, von 'fossilen' Rest-Genen, die ihre Funktion nicht mehr ausüben, sowie von der verblüffenden Tatsache, dass der Genvergleich zeigt, wie die Evolution sich selbst wiederholt. Entstanden ist ein unterhaltsamer und faszinierender Einblick in die neueste Forschung zur Entstehung und Entwicklung des Lebens.
In den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten hat in der Biologie nach der Darwinischen und der molekularbiologischen eine dritte Revolution stattgefunden: die Revolution der evolutionären Entwicklungsbiologie, kurz „Evo Devo“. Sean Carroll ist Professor für Molekularbiologie und Genetik am Howard Hughes Institute der University of Wisconsin in Madison. Er erzählt in diesem Buch die Geschichte dieser neuen Revolution. Er beschreibt die wunderbare Entwicklungsgeschichte von der winzigen Zelle bis zum ausgewachsenen Lebewesen, die uns mit allen Tieren verbindet, sowie den langen Weg vom Ursprung der Tiere bis zu den gar nicht so weit zurückliegenden Anfängen unser eigenen Spezies.
A mixture of spirit and deed -- Introduction: Humboldt's gifts -- Part 1: The making of a theory. Reverend Darwin's detour ; Drawing a line between monkeys and kangaroos ; Life imitates life -- Part 2: The loveliest bones. Java man ; To the big bang, on horseback ; Where the dragon laid her eggs ; The day the mesozoic died ; Dinosaurs of a feather ; It's a fishapod! -- Part 3: The natural history of humans. Journey to the Stone Age ; Clocks, trees, and H-bombs ; CSI: Neander Valley -- Afterword: The shape of things to come
An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’ history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. In the tradition of The Microbe Hunters and Gods, Graves, and Scholars, Sean Carroll leads a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwin’s trip around the world to Charles Walcott’s discovery of pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey’s investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Publishers Weekly’s “Most Anticipated
Books of the Fall” As you read these words, copies of you are being created.
Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated
writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already
hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that
facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how
we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with
Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists
haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis
since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to
be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how
impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on
the dead end of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on
the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that
the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more
than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of
every one of us. Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second.
The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a
quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in
that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's
uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly
revelation until his case is inescapably established. Rarely does a book so
fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the
threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we
are made of.
The author team welcomes a new coauthor, Sean B. Carroll, a recognized leader in the field of evolutionary development, to this new edition of Introduction to Genetic Analysis (IGA). The authors’ ambitious new plans for this edition focus on showing how genetics is practiced today. In particular, the new edition renews its emphasis on how genetic analysis can be a powerful tool for answering biological questions of all types.
Acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll presents a captivating exploration of the surprising power of chance in shaping our lives and the world around us. For centuries, philosophers and theologians have questioned why the world is as it is and whether events occur for a reason or are merely left to chance. Recent scientific discoveries reveal that our existence is largely driven by chance. This narrative highlights how chance is the source of the beauty and diversity in the living world. Remarkably, humans, like every other species, are here by accident, with countless improbable events leading to our existence—from an unlikely asteroid impact to the unpredictable shifts of the Ice Age and even random occurrences in our parents' biology. Each of us is the product of an astonishing series of fortunate events, and chance continues to influence our daily lives, often determining the fragile line between life and death. This concise book tackles a grand idea with a spirited narrative, drawing inspiration from Monty Python, Kurt Vonnegut, and other influential thinkers. Carroll, one of today's prominent science storytellers, delivers an engaging and thought-provoking account of a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of life.
