Evolution of Sameness and DifferenceCRC Press, 1999-08-19 - 356 psl. |
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Samenesses that Unite Living Things | 6 |
Differences that Separate Life from Nonlife | 16 |
3333 | 36 |
FINDING | 43 |
CONTENDING WITH DIFFERENCE | 93 |
A Brief History of Differences in Biology | 94 |
The New Look of Difference 100 Cladistics Methods | 100 |
Drawing Evolutionary Inferences from Molecular Differences | 103 |
The RNA World | 164 |
Early Intronic | 167 |
Genetic andor Operational Codes | 168 |
DNABased Genomes | 172 |
Stable Conveyers of Heredity | 174 |
Repositories of Genomes | 178 |
Superfamilies of Genes | 181 |
Earthlives 186 Devolution of Noncellular Life | 186 |
Viruses and Retrotransposons | 105 |
RNA Viruses | 107 |
DNA Viruses | 110 |
DNARNA and RNADNA Switching Viruses Pararetroviruses and Retroviruses and Retrotransposons | 111 |
The New Look at Cellular Life | 115 |
Finding the Root of Difference | 116 |
Putting an Age on Difference | 118 |
Domains in Lifes Universal Phylogenetic Tree 120 Bacteria Also Called Eubacteria | 120 |
Archaea Also Called Archaebacteria | 126 |
Eucarya | 129 |
Where Domains Meet 142 Shared Across the Three Domains | 142 |
Shared Across Two Domains | 143 |
Critique | 145 |
Been There Done | 146 |
Lineages Do Not Necessarily Come and Go from Points | 147 |
RECONCILING SAMENESS AND DIFFERENCE | 149 |
Early Earthlives | 151 |
A Geochronometric View of the Early Earth | 152 |
Origins | 153 |
Between Chemistry and Biology | 160 |
RNABased Genomes | 163 |
Devolution of Cellular Life | 191 |
Critical Issues for Sameness and Difference | 203 |
EVOLUTION VERSUS DEVOLUTION | 207 |
Biologys Horseless Carriage | 209 |
What Is Evolution? | 210 |
Pervasive Ambiguity | 211 |
Virtual Evolution | 214 |
Evolutions Fuel | 216 |
Genes | 217 |
Mutations | 219 |
Devolution | 222 |
Evolutions Transmission 227 Genetic Continuity | 227 |
Devolution | 228 |
Evolutions Engine | 231 |
The Roots of Natural Selection | 232 |
Reprise | 237 |
ENDNOTES | 239 |
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