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Preface Toward a postmodern synthesis of evolutionary biology
Chapter 1: The fundamentals of evolution: Darwin and Modern Synthesis
Chapter 2: From Modern Synthesis to evolutionary genomics: Multiple processes and patterns of evolution
Chapter 3: Comparative genomics: Evolving genomescapes
Chapter 4: Genomics, systems biology, and universals of evolution: Genome evolution as a phenomenon of statistical physics
Chapter 5: The web genomics of the prokaryotic world: Vertical and horizontal flows of genes, the mobilome, and the dynamic pangenomes
Chapter 6: The phylogenetic forest and the quest for the elusive Tree of Life in the age of genomics
Chapter 7: The origins of eukaryotes: Endosymbiosis, the strange story of introns, and the ultimate importance of unique events in evolution
Chapter 8: The non-adaptive null hypothesis of genome evolution and origins of biological complexity
Chapter 9: The Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Wrightean modalities of evolution, robustness, evolvability, and the creative role of noise in evolution
Chapter 10: The Virus World and its evolution
Chapter 11: The Last Universal Common Ancestor, the origin of cells, and the primordial gene pool
Chapter 12: Origin of life: The emergence of translation, replication, metabolism, and membranes—the biological, geochemical, and cosmological perspectives
Chapter 13: The postmodern state of evolutionary biology
Appendix A: Postmodernist philosophy, metanarratives, and the nature and goals of the scientific endeavor
Appendix B: Evolution of the cosmos and life: Eternal inflation, “many worlds in one,” anthropic selection, and a rough estimate of the probability of the origin of life
References
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
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