Acquiring Genomes by Margulis, Lynn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE TABLES AND FIGURES FOREWORD PREFACE PART ONE: THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPERATIVE

CHAPTER 1: DARWINISM NOT NEODARWINISM

DARWIN’S EVOLUTION SYMBIOSIS AS A SOURCE OF INHERITED VARIATION THE MYTH OF THE INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL

CHAPTER 2: DARWIN’S DILEMMA

LATTER-DAY DARWINISTS ON DAPHNE MAJOR HEREDITY AND HEALTH CELLS, MICROBES, PROPAGULES, AND AUTOPOIETIC UNITS THERMODYNAMICS, “PURPOSE,” AND EVOLUTIONARY “PROGRESS”

CHAPTER 3: RELATIVE INDIVIDUALITY

INDIVIDUALITY FROM COMMUNITY STRENGTH IN NUMBERS SPECIES DECONSTRUCTED: MIEHE’S ARDISIA, AND ROSATI’S EUPLOTIDIUM MIEHE’S LEAF MARGIN SECRET CONFIRMED DEFENSIVE CILIATES, ROSATI’S REVELATION COMMUNITIES AND THE LOGIC OF ECOSYSTEMS

CHAPTER 4: THE NATURAL SELECTOR

NIETZSCHE’S WILL TO POWER: REPRODUCTION UNCHECKED POPULATIONS DARWIN’S ADMISSION GAIA AS NATURAL SELECTOR

CHAPTER 5: PRINCIPLES OF EVOLUTIONARY NOVELTY

SOURCES OF HERITABLE NOVELTY

PART TWO: THE MICROBE IN EVOLUTION

CHAPTER 6: SPECIES AND CELLS

BACTERIA AS ONE SPECIES INCORPORATIONS: WHERE SPECIATION BEGINS CELL EQUATIONS AND SPECIES DEFINITIONS

CHAPTER 7: HISTORY OF THE HERITABLE

MEET THE BEETLES: HEDDI’S WEEVILS MICROCOSMIC DIALOGUE: PARTNER INTEGRATION FUNGAL FARMERS INDEPENDENT ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE

PART THREE: PLANETARY LEGACY

CHAPTER 8: GAIAN PLANET

VERNADSKY’S SPACE, DARWIN’S TIME ARCHEAN, PROTEROZOIC, PHANEROZOIC AGES OF GAIA

CHAPTER 9: EUKARYOSIS IN AN ANOXIC WORLD

DUBININA’S THIODENDRON AND DENNIS’S BLOOD GUPTA’S CHIMERA LIBERATION OF THE NUCLEUS

PART FOUR: CONSORTIA

CHAPTER 10: SEAWORTHY ALLIANCES

NEMATOCYST THIEVES GLOW-IN-THE-DARK SQUID FORTEY’S OLENIDS

CHAPTER 11: PLANT PROCLIVITIES

POOR MAN’S UMBRELLA THE SECRET LIFE OF GEOSIPHON NITROGEN-FIXING NICHES

CHAPTER 12: CHROMOSOME DANCE: THE FISSION THEORY

KINETOCHORE REPRODUCTION AS BACTERIAL LEGACY

CHAPTER 13: DARWIN REVISITED: SPECIES IN THE EVOLUTIONARY DIALOGUE

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