The major transitions in evolution
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
1995
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction - 2. What is life? - 3. Chemical evolution - 4. The evolution of templates - 5. The chicken and egg problem - 6. The origin of translation and the genetic code - 7. The origin of protocells - 8. The origin of eukaryotes - 9. The origin of sex and the nature of spesies - 10. Intragenomic conflict - 11. Symbiosis - 12. Development in simple organisms - 13. Gene regulation and cell heredity - 14. The development of spatial patterns - 15. Development and evolution - 16. The origins of societies - 17. The origin of language