I'm looking for a good book that can give me a decent overview of genetics and related fields in the hopes that I can following along with some of the Nobel Intent articles. Sort of a "brief history ...

Basic concepts in quantitative genetics, including Mendelian genetics, gene action (additive, dominant, recessive), heritability, liability threshold model, means, variances, structure of DNA, types ...

Basic concepts in population genetics, including nucleotide diversity, random genetic drift, effective population size, coalescent theory, time to common ancestor, site frequency spectrum, linkage ...

These pieces describe the basics of gene organization in prokaryotes and how gene expression is regulated in prokaryotes compared to eukaryotes. How do bacteria adapt so quickly to their environments?

THE increasing number of publications of recent years which deal with the subject of inheritance is testimony to the keen interest in the laws and principles of this science. Our knowledge of it ...