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Biological Innovations that Built the World A Four-billion-year Journey through Life and Earth History

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14.06.2019

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XIX, 192 illus., 47 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen

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Springer

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490

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24,1/16/3,2 cm

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1157 g

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1st ed. 2019

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Englisch

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978-3-030-16056-2

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Details

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

14.06.2019

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XIX, 192 illus., 47 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen

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Springer

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490

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24,1/16/3,2 cm

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1157 g

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1st ed. 2019

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-030-16056-2

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  • Produktbild: Biological Innovations that Built the World

  • 1. Introduction

                                                                                                                   

    2. The Origins                                                                                                                       

    2.1   Introduction

    2.2   Birth of The Solar System

    2.3   The Earth

    2.4   The Start of Tectonics

    2.5   Tectonic Processes are Essential to Life

    2.6   Genesis of The Atmosphere-Ocean-Continental Crust (AOC) System

     

    3. The Birth of Life                                                                                                               

    3.1 Introduction

    3.2 Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents as Settings for the Emergence of Life

    3.3 A Primordial Role for RNA?

    3.4 The Origin of the Genetic Code

    3.5 A RNA-Protein World

    3.6 Biological Membranes

    3.7 From Geochemistry to Biochemistry: The Emergence of an Autonomous Metabolism

    3.8 DNA Replaced RNA as the Repository of Biological Information

    3.9 The Bacteria-Archaea Membrane Divide: Ancestral or Derived?

    3.10 Concluding Remarks

     

    4. Moving to the Light: The Evolution of Photosynthesis                                           

    4.1 Introduction

    4.2 Light, Pigments and Photosystems

    4.3 Accessory Pigments

    4.4 The Photochemical Process in Anoxygenic Bacteria

    4.5 Evolutionary Interrelationships of Type-1 and Type-2 Photosystems

    4.6 Oxygenic Photosynthesis

    4.7 Pathways of Carbon Photosynthetic Fixation

     

    5. The Great Oxygenation

    5.1 Introduction

    5.2 Planetary Oxygen Balance

    5.3 Methane was Probably a Key Driver of Planetary Oxygenation

    5.4 The GOE was Associated with a Phase of Climatic Instability

    5.5 After the GOE, the Earth Stabilized in a Low-Oxygen State for Over One Billion Years

    5.6 The Earth Entered a High-Oxygen Phase About 800 Million Years Ago

    5.7 The Impact of Oxygen on Biological Evolution

     

    6. Eukaryotes

    6.1 Introduction

    6.2 Rise and Fall of the Archaezoan Model of Eukaryogenesis

    6.3 Post-Archaezoan Models

    6.4 The Neomuran Model

    6.5 The Origin of the Nucleus

    6.6 Was the Host a Primitive Eukaryote or a Complex Archaeon?

    6.7 The Mitochondria

    6.8 The Last Eukaryote Common Ancestor (LECA) had all the Fundamental Traits of Eukaryotic Cells

    6.9 Eukaryote Phylogeny and Systematics

    6.10 Timing of Eukaryote Appearance and Diversification

    6.11 Concluding Remarks

     

    7. Sexual Reproduction

    7.1 Introduction

    7.2 Origin of Meiotic Sex

    7.3 The Case of Parthenogenetic Rotifers

    7.4 Sexual Reproduction Sets Strong Species Boundaries in Eukaryotes

    7.5 Species Boundary in Prokaryotes is Conventional

    7.6 Gamete Differentiation and Genders

     

    8. Multicellularity

    8.1 Introduction

    8.2 Cellular Specialization and Levels of Organization in Multicellular Organisms

    8.3 Stem Cells and Germ Line

    8.4 Concluding Remarks

     

    9. The Chloroplast and Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

    9.1 Introduction

    9.2 Birth of the Primary Chloroplast

    9.3 The Plants (Archaeplastida)

    9.4 Secondary Chloroplasts

    9.5 Phylogeny of Eukaryotes with Secondary Chloroplasts

    9.8 Chloroplast Thieves and Other Stories

    9.7 Plastid Division

    9.8 Storage Polysaccharides

     

    10. The Animals

    10.1 Introduction

    10.2 Embryo Development and Body Symmetry

    10.3 Animal Systematics

    10.4 Cellular Junctions and Epithelia

    10.5 The Intestine and Animal Evolution

    10.6 Chordates

    10.7 The Impact of Animals on the Global Environment

     

    11. Land Plants

    11.1 Introduction

    11.2 An Early Step in Plant Terrestrialization was a Change in the Ancestral Life Cycle

    11.3 Early Land Plants

    11.4 Stomata and Homeohydry

    11.5 Land Plant Systematics

    11.6 The Xylem: A Lignified Water-Conducting System

    11.7 Multiple Evolution of Leaves And Roots

    11.8 Land Plants Have Co-Evolved with Fungal Symbionts

    11.9 The Impact of Land Plants on the Global Environment

     

    12. The Emergence of Humanity

    12.1 Introduction

    12.2 The Evolution of Bipedality

    12.3 Australopythecines

    12.4 The Genus Homo

    12.5 Origin and Diffusion of Modern Humans

    12.6 Death from a Distance: High-Speed Throwing

    12.7 Why are Humans Naked?

    12.8 Reproductive Biology of Humans

    12.9 The Evolution of Language

    12.10 The “Cognitive Revolution”

    12.11 The Evolution of Cooperation and the Emergence of Culture

    12.12 The Agricultural Revolution

    12.13 The Evolution of Social Organization

    12.14 The Search for “Human” Genes

    12.15 The Impact of Humanity on the Global Environment

     

    13. Synopsis

     

    14. Glossary

     

    15. Analytic Index