Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam: A Defined Redux of Human Evolution

by Subir Ranjan Kundu

Overview

Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam discusses theoretical ideas, interpretations, and paleontological evidence to narrate the origin and evolutionary story of Sapiens through the transitional stages of archaic human species involved in the evolutionary pilgrimage, from the great apes and to modern humans. Author Subir Ranjan Kundu investigates the DNA footprints of primates – great apes, archaic humans, and anatomically modern human beings – to stretch out the missing links between evolutionary milestones to define and redefine the progress of life.

The origin and evolution of Humans have always remained a source of debate between the creationists and evolutionists, in terms of recognizing the results of such researches on biological evolution and its credible interpretation of the evolutionists who upheld the origin and evolution of “Sapiens” resulting from great apes in course of the gradual evolutionary progress of life. Kundu analyzes interpretations of molecular and evolutionary geneticists over the last four decades and presents detailed illustrations on the matrilineal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (represented by mitochondrial Eve as primordial mother), patrilineal inheritance of Y-chromosomal DNA (represented by Y-chromosomal Adam as primordial father). He also presents elaborate structural aspects of the human genome and molecular aspects of the DNA footprint of Sapiens. This book is addressed to heterogeneous readers, graduate, and post-graduate students, research scientists and the general public interested in the origins and biological evolution of humans in view of molecular phylogenetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680537024
Publisher:	Academica Press
Publication date:	09/15/2022
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Subir Ranjan Kundu is a senior researcher and non-fiction writer in the interdisciplinary fields of conservation, molecular and evolutionary biology. He was previously a research fellow at the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, under the Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, India and successfully conducted studies on in situ conservation models at the Universityof Calcutta (Kolkata). Dr. Kundu received his M.Sc. in botany from Kanpur University, specializing in cytogenetics and plant breeding, and his Ph.D. in botany from the Universityof Calcutta, specializing in phytogeography, conservation, and evolutionary biology. He is the author of five books on conservation, molecular, and evolutionary biology, and has published numerous journal publications on conservation and evolutionary biology.