Concepts Of Symbiogenesis

Author : Lii͡a Nikolaevna Khakhina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300048162
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concepts of Symbiogenesis written by Lii͡a Nikolaevna Khakhina and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbiogenesis, a term first coined by the Russian botanist K. S. Merezhkovsky in the late nineteenth century, is the evolution of new life forms from the physical union of different, once-independent partners. In this book Khakhina traces the development of the concept in Russian and Soviet scientific literature, reviewing the contributions of Merezhkovsky, A. S. Famintsyn, B. M. Kozo-Polyansky, and other prominent Russian scientists to theories of the role of symbiosis as a source of evolutionary information. This book provides new information for English-speaking scientists. The evolutionary implications of symbiosis have only recently been acknowledged by western scientists, and the sophisticated analysis by Russian biologists described by Khakhina is largely unknown. Lynn Margulis and Mark McMenamin have written an introduction to Khakhina's book (Published in the Soviet Union in 1979). The appendix by Donna C. Mehos describes the American anatomist Ivan E. Wallin, whose theory of symbionticism - species origin by the acquisition of microbial symbionts - was definitively rejected by his peers. The book is essential for anyone wishing to understand a topic of overwhelming importance for evolutionary biology and the history of science.

Author : Boris Mikhaĭlovich Kozo-Poli︠a︡nskiĭ
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674050457
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbiogenesis written by Boris Mikhaĭlovich Kozo-Poli︠a︡nskiĭ and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution.

Author : Lynn Margulis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262132695
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation written by Lynn Margulis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original contributions by symbiosis biologists and evolutionary theorists address the adequacy of the prevailing neo-Darwinian concept of evolution in the light of growing evidence that hereditary symbiosis, supplemented by the gradual accumulation of heritable mutation, results in the origin of new species and morphological novelty.A departure from mainstream biology, the idea of symbiosis--as in the genetic and metabolic interactions of the bacterial communities that became the earliest eukaryotes and eventually evolved into plants and animals--has attracted the attention of a growing number of scientists.These original contributions by symbiosis biologists and evolutionary theorists address the adequacy of the prevailing neo-Darwinian concept of evolution in the light of growing evidence that hereditary symbiosis, supplemented by the gradual accumulation of heritable mutation, results in the origin of new species and morphological novelty. They include reports of current research on the evolutionary consequences of symbiosis, the protracted physical association between organisms of different species. Among the issues considered are individuality and evolution, microbial symbioses, animal-bacterial symbioses, and the importance of symbiosis in cell evolution, ecology, and morphogenesis. Lynn Margulis, Distinguished Professor of Botany at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is the modern originator of the symbiotic theory of cell evolution. Once considered heresy, her ideas are now part of the microbiological revolution. ContributorsPeter Atsatt, Richard C. Back, David Bermudes, Paola Bonfante-Fasolo, René Fester, Lynda J. Goff, Anne-Marie Grenier, Ricardo Guerrero, Robert H. Haynes, Rosmarie Honegger, Gregory Hinkle, Kwang W. Jeon, Bryce Kendrick, Richard Law, David Lewis, Lynn Margulis, John Maynard Smith, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Paul Nardon, Kenneth H. Nealson, Kris Pirozynski, Peter W. Price, Mary Beth Saffo, Jan Sapp, Silvano Scannerini, Werner Schwemmler, Sorin Sonea, Toomas H. Tiivel, Robert K. Trench, Russell Vetter

Author : Werner Schwemmler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110860139
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbiogenesis. A Macro-Mechanism of Evolution written by Werner Schwemmler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Symbiogenesis. A Macro-Mechanism of Evolution" verfügbar.

Author : Jan Sapp
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195088212
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution by Association written by Jan Sapp and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our evolution and that of all plants and animals is not thought to be due solely to the gradual accumulation of gene changes within species. Symbiosis is at the root of our being. This book is a systematic history of this emerging field and gives an account of the growth of a biological idea.

Author : Lynn Margulis
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078672448X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbiotic Planet written by Lynn Margulis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited variations are naturally selected, but they leave unanswered how variant organisms come to be in the first place. In Symbiotic Planet, renowned scientist Lynn Margulis shows that symbiosis, which simply means members of different species living in physical contact with each other, is crucial to the origins of evolutionary novelty. Ranging from bacteria, the smallest kinds of life, to the largest -- the living Earth itself -- Margulis explains the symbiotic origins of many of evolution's most important innovations. The very cells we're made of started as symbiotic unions of different kinds of bacteria. Sex -- and its inevitable corollary, death -- arose when failed attempts at cannibalism resulted in seasonally repeated mergers of some of our tiniest ancestors. Dry land became forested only after symbioses of algae and fungi evolved into plants. Since all living things are bathed by the same waters and atmosphere, all the inhabitants of Earth belong to a symbiotic union. Gaia, the finely tuned largest ecosystem of the Earth's surface, is just symbiosis as seen from space. Along the way, Margulis describes her initiation into the world of science and the early steps in the present revolution in evolutionary biology; the importance of species classification for how we think about the living world; and the way "academic apartheid" can block scientific advancement. Written with enthusiasm and authority, this is a book that could change the way you view our living Earth.

Author : Dorion Sagan
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584471
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lynn Margulis written by Dorion Sagan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tireless, controversial, and hugely inspirational to those who knew her or encountered her work, Lynn Margulis was a scientist whose intellectual energy and interests knew no bounds. Best known for her work on the origins of eukaryotic cells, the Gaia hypothesis, and symbiogenesis as a driving force in evolution, her work has forever changed the way we understand life on Earth. When Margulis passed away in 2011, she left behind a groundbreaking scientific legacy that spanned decades. In this collection, Dorion Sagan, Margulis's son and longtime collaborator, gathers together the voices of friends and colleagues to remark on her life and legacy, in essays that cover her early collaboration with James Lovelock, her fearless face-off with Richard Dawkins during the so-called "Battle of Balliol" at Oxford, the intrepid application of her scientific mind to the insistence that 9/11 was a false-flag operation, her affinity for Emily Dickinson, and more. Margulis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, received the prestigious National Medal of Science in 1999, and her papers are permanently archived at the Library of Congress. Less than a month before her untimely death, Margulis was named one of the twenty most influential scientists alive - one of only two women on this list, which include such scientists as Stephen Hawking, James Watson, and Jane Goodall.

Author : Lynn Margulis
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786722606
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acquiring Genomes written by Lynn Margulis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan present an answer to one of the enduring mysteries of evolution -- the source of inherited variation that gives rise to new species. Random genetic mutation, long believed to be the main source of variation, is only a marginal factor. As the authors demonstrate in this book, the more important source of speciation, by far, is the acquisition of new genomes by symbiotic merger. The result of thirty years of delving into a vast, mostly arcane literature, this is the first book to go beyond -- and reveal the severe limitations of -- the "Modern Synthesis" that has dominated evolutionary biology for almost three generations. Lynn Margulis, whom E. O. Wilson called "one of the most successful synthetic thinkers in modern biology," and her co-author Dorion Sagan have written a comprehensive and scientifically supported presentation of a theory that directly challenges the assumptions we hold about the variety of the living world.

Author : James Alan Shapiro
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132780933
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution written by James Alan Shapiro and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological evolution. Shapiro demonstrates why traditional views of evolution are inadequate to explain the latest evidence, and presents an alternative. His information- and systems-based approach integrates advances in symbiogenesis, epigenetics, and saltationism, and points toward an emerging synthesis of physical, information, and biological sciences.

Author : Ivan Emmanuel Wallin
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Symbionticism and the Origin of Species written by Ivan Emmanuel Wallin and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1927 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: