New Horizons in Evolution

New Horizons in Evolution is a compendium of the latest research, analyses, and theories of evolutionary biology. Chapters are collected from the international symposium held by the Board of Governors of the University of Haifa to honor Dr. Eviatar Nevo, founder and director of the Institute of Evolution.

This book includes material written by top global scientists. Such detailed summaries and recent advances include topics like genomics, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, and the evolution of cancer. This book analyzes evolutionary biology of animals, such as lizards and subterranean mammals. It also discusses agricultural evolution, specifically the vital wheat crop in various climates and locations. Each chapter contributes the most up-to-date knowledge of evolution’s role in speciation, adaptation, and regulation.

New Horizons in Evolution is a valuable resource for researchers involved in evolution, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary theory. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in evolutionary biology courses will also find this useful due to the high expertise level and latest knowledge available through this resource.

• Examines the evolution of species in extreme conditions
• Discusses the role of evolution in medicine and cancer research
• Features the latest data and advances in evolution theory

Solomon P. Wasser is a world leader in medicinal mushrooms study and fungal evolution, taxonomy, and biodiversity, especially in higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms. He has introduced 226 new scientific names for fungi, including 42 species of higher Basidiomycetes species. He has also developed and patented new dietary supplements with immunomodulating, cholesterol lowering, antidiabetic, antioxidant, and radical scavenging activities. He is founder and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Algologia, and International Journal on Algae and is an author and coauthor of 600 scientific publications, including 57 books and 15 patents.

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern completed her PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 2006. She made her first postdoc in the lab of Prof. Uri Alon in Systems Biology in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and the second postdoc in the lab of Prof. Alfonso Valencia in the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute. She is a founder of special scientific Art in Science competition at the international Bioinformatics conferences since 2008, a chair of the ISCB affiliated Israeli Bioinformatics group, and a head of the "Cancer Genomics and BioComputing in Complex Diseases" group in the Azrieli faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University. Her group has developed unique protocols for the cell free DNA isolation and its analysis using unique and patented techniques, the group in working in evolution of protein interaction networks.