Symbiogenesis : a new principle of evolution /
"More than eighty years ago, before we knew much about the structure of cells, Russian botanist Boris Kozo-Polyansky brilliantly outlined the concept of symbiogenesis, the symbiotic origin of cells with nuclei. It was a half-century later, only when experimental approaches that Kozo-Polyansky l...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- The importance of B.M. Kozo-Polyansky's work for modern science / Liya N. Khakhina
- Introduction / Peter H. Raven
- Note to the reader / Lynn Margulis
- Kozo-Polyansky's life / Victor Fet
- Original Russian book title page
- Modern status of Kozo-Polyansky's view of the net of life : symbiogenesis refined by Darwin-Wallace "natural selection"
- Preface
- Noncellular organisms (cytodes) and bioblasts (prokaryotes)
- The cell and its organelles
- Multicellular organisms
- The philosophy of symbiogenesis
- History of symbiogenesis theory
- References to Kozo-Polyansky's text
- Kozo-Polyansky's taxa
- Editor's commentary
- Commentary references
- Modern classification of life (most inclusive "higher" taxa)
- Glossary.