Epigenetic Processes and Evolution of Life
| Main Author: | Svorcová, Jana. |
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| Other Authors: | Markoš, Anton, 1949- |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Connect to Resource |
| Item Description: |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1: Transgressing the Norms -- 2: The Manifold of Prebiotic Evolution -- Preconditions -- Metabolism First -- 'Replicators'-Code First -- 3: Life from Nonlife: Establishing Rules and Codes -- Proteins -- 'Universal Cell' -- Life Is... -- Pillars and Itinerary of the Biosphere -- Biospheric Games -- 4: Towards a New Manifold: The Biosphere -- Dating Life's Appearance -- Origins: Biosphere LUCA -- Reconstructing the Past, Making Sense of the Present -- 5: Concepts of Heredity and Theories of Evolution -- Descent with Modification -- J.B. Lamarck -- After Lamarck: Organic Memory -- Experimental Embryology -- Units of Heredity -- Modern Synthesis -- The Age of DNA -- Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- The Rise of Epigenetics -- Extended Evolutionary Synthesis -- Philosophical Approaches -- Philosophical Turnoff on Causality -- Evolution as History -- 6: New Dimensions of Diversity -- On Digital -- Shaping DNA -- Proteins -- The Hairball -- Targeted Epimutations -- Combing the Shapes of Nucleic Acids -- Protein Modularity -- Unrooted in the Norm yet Faithful to It -- 7: Information Boom -- Quorum Sensing -- Signal Transduction -- Chance, Necessity, and Gratuity -- Processing and Responding -- Simplexity -- 8: Morphogenesis -- The Tradition of the New -- Multicellularity -- Phylotype Again -- Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance -- Biased Mutations -- 9: Evolution by Cooperation: Communication between Different Lineages of Life -- On Lichens, Squids, and Coral Bleaching -- Protists -- Intracellular Symbiosis in Multicellular Organisms -- Mycorrhiza -- Bacterial Consortia -- Mimetic Rings -- 10: I, Holobiont -- Human Holobiont -- Variation in Microbiome Within Individuals -- Colonization Determinants -- Functions of Microbiome -- Fecal Transplants. Holobiont as a Unit of Selection -- Criticism -- 11: Life as Interpretation -- The Nine-Word Game -- Species as Cultures -- References -- Index. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| ISBN: |
9781351009959 |