1. Fortcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: iii - iii

2. Molecular anthropology: Toward a new evolutionary paradigm

   Announcement Pages: 115 - 115

3. Assemblies of free amino acids as possible prebiotic catalysts

   • A. Bar-Nun
   • E. Kochavi
   • S. Bar-Nun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 116 - 122

4. Estimating selection by comparing synonymous and substitutional changes

   • J. Maynard Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 128

5. Genetic variation in IncI1-co1Ib plasmids

   • Francisco José Ayala
   • Dan E. Krane
   • Daniel L. Hartl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 133

6. Convergent evolution of crystallin gene regulation in squid and chicken: The AP-1/ARE connection

   • Stanislav I. Tomarev
   • Melinda K. Duncan
   • Joram Piatigorsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 134 - 143

7. Promiscuous mitochondrial group II intron sequences in plant nuclear genomes

   • V. Knoop
   • A. Brennicke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 144 - 150

8. Aspects of nonrandom turnover involved in the concerted evolution of intergenic spacers within the ribosomal DNA of Drosophila melanogaster

   • Andres Ruiz Linares
   • Timothy Bowen
   • Gabriel A. Dover

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 159

9. Analysis of directional mutation pressure and nucleotide content in mitochondrial cytochrome b genes

   • Lars S. Jermiin
   • Dan Graur
   • Ross H. Crozier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 160 - 173

10. Numt, a recent transfer and tandem amplification of mitochondrial DNA to the nuclear genome of the domestic cat

    • Jose V. Lopez
    • Naoya Yuhki
    • Stephen J. O'Brien

    OriginalPaper Pages: 174 - 190

11. Rapid evolution of a heteroplasmic repetitive sequence in the mitochondrial DNA control region of carnivores

    • A. Rus Hoelzel
    • Jose V. Lopez
    • Stephen J. O'Brien

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 199

12. Cloning and characterization of the platypus mitochondrial genome

    • Neil J. Gemmell
    • Axel Janke
    • Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

    OriginalPaper Pages: 200 - 205

13. Evolution of protein 3D structures as diffusion in multidimensional conformational space

    • Alexander M. Gutin
    • Azat Ya. Badretdinov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 206 - 209

14. Inconsistency of the maximum parsimony method when the rate of nucleotide substitution is constant

    • Naoko Takezaki
    • Masatoshi Nei

    OriginalPaper Pages: 210 - 218

15. Reconstruction of ancestral sequences by the inferential method, a tool for protein engineering studies

    • Giacinto Libertini
    • Alberto Di Donato

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 229