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Rebecca L. Cann

Biology

#1216

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#2069

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#624

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Genetics

#133

World Rank

#170

Historical Rank

#82

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Rebecca L. Cann's Degrees

PhD Genetics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Rebecca L. Cann is a geneticist who made a scientific breakthrough on mitochondrial DNA variation and evolution in humans, popularly called Mitochondrial Eve. Her discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother who lived <200,000 years ago became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most widely accepted explanation of the origin of all modern humans. She is currently Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Rebecca L. Cann's Published Works

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The history and geography of human genes (1995) (2668)
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution (1987) (2581)
Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics (1985) (1214)
Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics (1985) (1214)
Polymorphic sites and the mechanism of evolution in human mitochondrial DNA. (1984) (347)
Length mutations in human mitochondrial DNA. (1983) (204)
Genetic Clues to Dispersal in Human Populations: Retracing the Past from the Present (2001) (194)
The recent African genesis of humans. (1992) (166)
Polynesian mitochondrial DNAs reveal three deep maternal lineage clusters. (1994) (141)
mtDNA lineage analyses: origins and migrations of Micronesians and Polynesians. (2000) (121)
mtDNA history of the Cayapa Amerinds of Ecuador: detection of additional founding lineages for the Native American populations. (1999) (116)
Mitochondrial and nuclear genetic relationships among Pacific Island and Asian populations. (1998) (113)
Molecular evolution : producing the biochemical data (1994) (112)
INCREASE IN AVIAN MALARIA AT UPPER ELEVATION IN HAWAI‘I (2005) (103)
mtDNA and language support a common origin of Micronesians and Polynesians in Island Southeast Asia. (1998) (91)
A PCR test for avian malaria in Hawaiian birds (1995) (83)
Allelic variation in human mitochondrial genes based on patterns of restriction site polymorphism. (1986) (67)
DNA and Human Origins (1988) (57)
Negative Effects of an Introduced Bird Species on Growth and Survival in a Native Bird Community (2009) (53)
mtDNA variation in caste populations of Andhra Pradesh, India. (1996) (49)
DNA QUALITY AND ACCURACY OF AVIAN MALARIA PCR DIAGNOSTICS: A REVIEW (2006) (46)
Incipient extinction of a major population of the Hawaii akepa owing to introduced species. (2008) (33)
Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA: a preliminary report. (1982) (31)
Changes in Timing, Duration, and Symmetry of Molt of Hawaiian Forest Birds (2012) (29)
Spatial and temporal patterns of genetic diversity in an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper, the Hawaii Akepa (Loxops coccineus coccineus) (2010) (26)
Mitochondrial Clans and the Age of Our Common Mother (1987) (24)
Sexual dimorphism and the evolution of seasonal variation in sex allocation in the Hawaii akepa (2009) (23)
Mhc Allelic Diversity and Modern Human Origins (1997) (22)
Vector movement underlies avian malaria at upper elevation in Hawaii: implications for transmission of human malaria (2013) (21)
Reaction energies computed with density functional theory correspond with a whole organism effect; modelling the Ames test for mutagenicity. (2009) (20)
Misleading Trend Analysis and Decline of Hawaiian Forest Birds (2010) (19)
On Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests for Estimating Prevalence of Malaria in Birds (2003) (16)
Ancestral Geographic States and the Peril of Parsimony (1991) (15)
Dispersal ghosts in Oceania (2004) (15)
Human evolution: Tangled genetic routes (2002) (14)
mtDNA and Native Americans: a Southern perspective. (1994) (14)
Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution: Our One Lucky Mother (1994) (14)
Collection and storage of vertebrate samples. (1993) (13)
Mitochondrial Myopia: Reply to Bonatto et al (1996) (12)
Evolution of genes and proteins. Edited by M. Nei and R. K. Koehn. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. 1983. xiii + 331 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $36.00 (cloth), $20 (paper) (1984) (12)
The Military and Politics in a Theocratic State: Iran as Case Study (1998) (12)
Going back to our roots (2003) (11)
Genetics, evolution, and the innateness of language (2013) (11)
Increase of an introduced bird competitor in old-growth forest associated with restoration (2012) (11)
Females Lead Population Collapse of the Endangered Hawaii Creeper (2013) (8)
More Misleading Trend Analysis of Hawaiian Forest Birds (2013) (8)
Diffuse competition can be reversed: a case history with birds in Hawaii (2014) (7)
Human dispersal and divergence. (1993) (6)
Multiple Reversals of Bill Length over 1.7 Million Years in a Hawaiian Bird Lineage (2016) (6)
Y Weigh In Again on Modern Humans (2013) (5)
Linguistics: Talking trees tell tales (2000) (4)
Phylogenetic estimation in humans and neck riddles. (1997) (4)
A hybrid swarm of Dinopium woodpeckers in Sri Lanka (2015) (4)
Silverbacks and Their Satellites (2006) (3)
Mitochondrial DNA variation in Australian aborigines: the spread of modern populations. (1984) (3)
All about mitochondrial eve: an interview with Rebecca Cann. Interview by Jane Gitschier. (2010) (2)
Mt DNA, a Maternal Perspective, and the Origin of Modern Humans (1993) (2)
Models of human evolution. (1982) (2)
Genome Diversity: Applications in Human Population Genetics. (2001) (2)
Integrated conservation strategy for Hawaiian forest birds (1989) (2)
Contribution of aromatic residue interactions to the stability of myoglobin. V. Enhancement by aromatic compounds of the rate of heat denaturation. (1970) (2)
Genetic influences on language evolution: an evaluation of the evidence (2011) (2)
"Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution" (1987), by Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark and Allan (2018) (2)
INVITEDEDITORIAL mtDNA andNative Americans: aSouthern Perspective (1994) (1)
DNA Markers and Human Evolution (2006) (1)
Reply to Rothhammer and Bianchi (1995) (1)
THE INNATENESS OF LANGUAGE: A VIEW FROM GENETICS (2010) (1)
Allan Charles Wilson. 18 October 1934 — 21 July 1991 (2014) (1)
Molecular perspectives on human evolution (2011) (1)
INVITED EDITORIAL Phylogenetic Estimation in Humans and Neck Riddles (2006) (0)
Simulating Human Origins and Evolution. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 42.By K P Wessen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $120.00. xv + 241 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–521–84399–5. 2005. (2006) (0)
Parasites and Conservation of Hawaiian Birds (2021) (0)
human origins DNA furnishes an ever clearer picture of the multimillennial trek from Africa all the way to the tip of South America (2008) (0)
A mitochondrial perspective on replacement or continuity in human evolution (2020) (0)
Medical school hotline: The educational mission of the cell and molecular biology department and program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. (2014) (0)
The triumphant trellis (and the transubstantiation of modern humans) (2002) (0)
Reviewers of Molecular Ecology Papers (2006) (0)
The Roots of African Eve: Science Writing on Human Origins and Alex Haley’s Roots (2020) (0)
The role of the new cell and molecular biology graduate program in medical education. (2000) (0)
Mitochondria and Evolution (2001) (0)
Problems with Hawaiian Forest Birds (2015) (0)
Ancient DNA. Edited by Bernd Herrmann and Susan Hummel. xi + 263 pp. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1994. $69.00 (cloth) (1994) (0)
A Comparative Study of Sequences Derived From Mitochondrial DNA Databases Applied To the Question Of the Origin Of Modern Humans Quick Index (2007) (0)
Models with a porpoise (2012) (0)
Evolving: The Human Effect and Why It Matters • Daniel J Fairbanks (2013) (0)
Medical school hotline: the research mission of the cell and molecular biology department and program at the john a. Burns school of medicine. (2015) (0)
Island cultures and ecosystems: down with harmony, up with pondfields. (1998) (0)
Disputed African origin of human populations. Reply (1987) (0)
"Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution" (1987), by Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark and Allan (2019) (0)
Human Populations: Evolution (2006) (0)
Genetic variation and its maintenance: Nucleotide sequences, restriction maps, and human mitochondrial DNA diversity (1986) (0)
Vector movement underlies avian malaria at upper elevation in Hawaii: implications for transmission of human malaria (2013) (0)
In general , how does culture provide for humans ? (2012) (0)
Human genome evolution: edited by M. Jackson, T. Strachan and G. Dover Bios Scientific Publishers, 1996. £60.00 (xi + 306 pages) ISBN 1 85996 095 2 (1997) (0)

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