Epigenetic Processes and Evolution of Life
| Main Author: | Svorcová, Jana. |
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| Other Authors: | Markoš, Anton, 1949- |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
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| Online Access: |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.