Early Life: Evolution on the PreCambrian Earth

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-01-13
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Summary

This new edition offers an informative and compelling analysis of microbial evolution, including new discoveries from the past two decades.

Author Biography

Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., recipient of a National Medal of Science, is Distinguished University Professor in the Geosciences Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Michael F. Dolan, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xv
Foreword xvii
Antonio Lazcano
Preface to the First Edition xxi
Preface to the Second Edition xxiii
Evolution and Cells
1(24)
Two Kinds of Life
4(4)
Kingdoms of Organisms
8(3)
Living Clues to the Past
11(6)
Reconstructing the Ancient World
17(8)
Life without Oxygen
25(32)
The Beginning of Life
28(7)
The First Metabolism
35(6)
Electron-Transport Chains and Porphyrin Rings
41(5)
Photoautotrophy
46(3)
New Dangers
49(2)
First Sex
51(2)
Ecology without Oxygen
53(4)
Life with Oxygen
57(20)
The First Oxygen Producers
59(4)
The Transformation of the Atmosphere
63(3)
Stromatolites
66(3)
Learning to Breathe
69(4)
A Modern Environment
73(4)
A New Kind of Cell
77(32)
The First Eukaryotes
79(2)
Biological Partnerships
81(2)
The Nucleus
83(2)
Eukaryotes without Mitochondria
85(4)
Undulipodia
89(7)
Movement within Cells
96(2)
Mitochondria
98(5)
Plastids
103(6)
The Evolution of Sex
109(20)
Chromosomes and Mitosis
111(5)
The Mitotic Spindle
116(3)
Meiosis
119(3)
The Evolution of Meiosis
122(7)
The Modern Era
129(18)
Clones, Colonies, and Differentiation
131(4)
Cells in Multicellular Organisms
135(4)
``Everywhereness of Life''
139(8)
Glossary 147(12)
Index 159

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