Jan Sapp

The New Foundations of Evolution

On the Tree of Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a history of microbial evolutionary biology from the 19th century to the present. It follows the research of molecular evolutionists who explore the origins of the genetic system and the primary life forms: three domains and multiple kingdoms, created by mechanisms very unlike those considered by Darwin and his followers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780195388503
• ISBN-10: 019538850X
• Artikelnr.: 27034440

Autorenporträt

Jan Sapp is a Professor in the Department of Biology at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
1: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
2: Microbes First
3: The Germ of Phylogeny
4: Creatures Void of Form
5: About Chaos
6: Kingdoms at Biology's Borders
7: The Prokaryote and the Eukaryote
8: On the Unity of Life
9: Symbiotic Complexity
10: The Morning of Molecular Phylogenetics
11: Roots in the Genetic Code
12: A Third Form of Life
13: A Kingdom on a Molecule
14: Against Adaptationism
15: In the Capital of the New Kingdom
16: Out of Eden
17: Sketching the Tree of Life
18: The Dawn Cell Controversy
19: Three Domains
20: Disputed Territories
21: Grappling the World Wide Web
22: Entangled Roots and Braided Lives
Concluding Remarks