Evolutionary Biology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Mechanisms
Editors: Pontarotti, Pierre (Ed.)
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This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 16th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2012 in Marseilles. The aims of these annual meetings, which gather together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists, are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. The first chapter deals with the history of a great discovery: The first experiments on ascidian and sea urchin egg fertilization. The remaining contributions are grouped under the following categories:
· Evolutionary biology concepts
· Exobiology and the origin of life
· Evolutionary mechanisms
Offering an up-to-date overview of recent findings in the field of evolutionary biology, this book is an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students.
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“The reviewed volume is an important contribution to the understanding of the life origin and development. Evidently, biologists (including geneticists and astrobiologists) are its target audience, but palaeobiologists and geobiologists (professionals and students with very advanced knowledge) should not miss it, too. The book will give the latter a number of highly interesting ideas for further thoughts.” (Dmitry A. Ruban, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Issue 5-6, 2014)
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The First Experiments on Ascidian and Sea Urchin Eggs Fertilization
Pages 3-17
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Ontic Openness as Key Factor in the Evolution of Biological Systems
Pages 21-36
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Effects of Epistasis and Pleiotropy on Fitness Landscapes
Pages 37-46
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The Origin of Life, Evolution, and Functional Organization
Pages 49-60
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Interactions of Clay Minerals with RNA Components
Pages 61-79
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Evolutionary Biology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Mechanisms
- Editors
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- Pierre Pontarotti
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-38212-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-38212-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-38211-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-43511-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 300
- Topics
