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The mind of primitive anthropologists: hemoglobin and HLA, patterns of molecular evolution.
Human biology - 1 Aug 2003
Williams Robert C
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Frank Livingstone played a central role in defining the population genetics of the sickle cell mutation at position 6 of the human beta globin gene, the most famous amino acid substitution in evolutionary biology. Its discovery occurred at a time when traditional, 19th-century principles of natural selection were being joined with the newly discovered mechanics of DNA structure and protein synthesis to produce...
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