Have bureaucrats taken over the decision making role of politicians? This book offers a direct assessment of the role of bureaucrats in policy making by analysing how they shape policy in making decrees - laws that generally do not pass through full legislative scrutiny. These are often described a[...]
Taking the phylogenetic tree as the central metaphor of evolution, this text develops a phylogenetically based approach to molecular evolution that aims to enable students to see both the evolutionary relevance of molecular data, and the relevance evolutionary theory has for molecular studies.[...]