Keywords:
DNA-Analysis.
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DNA fingerprinting.
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Forensic genetics.
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Human evolution.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Genetic Reconstruction of the Past describes how DNA analysis can be used to make inferences not only in criminal cases but also about the ancient past. Part One focuses on forensic genetics and crime scenes. It gives an in-depth account of how we developed PCR, and used it on DNA evidence for the first time in a US court case in 1986; the first post-conviction exoneration; and the first identification of a missing person. Part Two discusses how the same DNA technology and data can also illuminate the ancient past, the history of human origins and migrations.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780197675380
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=7305361
DDC:
572.8633
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Genetic Reconstruction of the Past -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Stories DNA Tells -- PART I: RECONSTRUCTING THE CRIME SCENE -- 1. All Rise: DNA Enters the Courtroom -- 2. Deciding What the Jury Sees: DNA and Admissibility -- 3. Exclusions and Exonerations: Justice for the Wrongfully Convicted -- 4. The Earl Washington Jr. Case and the Problem of Mixtures -- 5. The Weight of Evidence: Statistics and the Evolution of Forensic Genotyping -- 6. Databases, Cold Hits, and Hot Button Issues -- 7. DNA, Doggerel, and Race Cards: The OJ Simpson Trial -- 8. Closure and Justice: Identifying the Missing -- PART II: RECONSTRUCTING THE ANCIENT PAST -- 9. Allan Wilson, Molecular Evolution, and the Out of Africa Hypothesis -- 10. DNA of the Dead: Sequencing Archaic Species and Ancient Remains -- 11. Populations, Genes, and History -- 12. Controversies and Contention in Interpreting the Past -- 13. Ancestry and Genetics: What's Race Got to Do with It? -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
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